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Member since: 10/31/08
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About Me

I'm a software engineer here at Bug Labs and I'm currently heading our web efforts. I have a computer engineering degree from Tufts University, so I know some things about hardware, but my career has been about software all the way. Writing software is instantly gratifying and I've lately become very fond of the speed and ease of using scripting languages, specifically Ruby and Python. I also like to make weird art with my computer, ride my bike in traffic, travel, and study Mandarin Chinese. I live in Brooklyn and I find my friends, co-workers, and New York City itself to be limitlessly inspiring.

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On: BUG, Arduino, Arduino, BUG (Post); "Great article agibb. Madaerodog, to add to your summary, if..."

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On: Bug Labber's BBQ at Prospect Park (Post); "It works awesome with candy corns -- http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e14/jwales369/cat_candy_corn_fangs.jpg"

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On: Photo from bballantine (Photo); "Hi Sy, Scala, JRuby, and Clojure will not run on..."

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Recent Blog Posts

ZenGarden Alpha

I was sick all weekend and Saturday was a cold rainy day, so I cozied up on the couch with my wife and coded. For a while I messed around with animation on AWT. AWT is like ancient technology, but it comes stock on BUG's JVM and runs pretty well on BUG. Then, sometime saturday afternoon, I started playing with mtpaint and making pixel art. I am inspired by a Zen rock garden I saw...

Happy Thanksgiving!

I hope everyone's looking forward to a break from the daily grind to spend time with family and friends. And to eat wonderful food. I love long day to work on personal projects and the like. Here's a list the things I'm considering doing (though I will probably just eat and sleep):* Use JGame to make a cool game for BUG* Install Dosbox on my laptop and play Robot Odyssey.* Play COD* Make pumpkin or...