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A blog (mostly) about nothing by a software engineer that loves to spend time with his family, golf, run, play hockey and discuss all things related to science, politics and our civilization.

Friday, October 10, 2014

Setting Up a MongoDB Cluster

I recently setup a MongoDB cluster on my workstation. While the Mongo documentation is very good, the proper setup is scattered between th...

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

The Future of Analytics and Business Intelligence

Been excitedly waiting to see what comes from Numenta since ~2006. Can't wait to see what's next. If I could go work for them tomor...

Clojure!

Spent some time looking at Clojure today. Definitely mind-bending given I've never worked with a Lisp dialect. Downloaded and walked t...

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Habitat for Humanity

I spent the day yesterday with 15 co-workers helping to build a Habitat for Humanity house. It was fun, felt good and was less stressful th...

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

HTML Parsing With Groovy and TagSoup

I'm working on an app where I need to parse some HTML. This is the first time I've had to do screen-scraping with Groovy. After a ...

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Steve Finck: I'm a software engineer that loves to spend time with his family, golf, run, play hockey and discuss all things related to science, politics and our civilization.

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