Author Archives: Adam Lum

My “Ruby Programming Challenge For Newbies” Efforts

By Adam Lum | Published: January 22, 2010
One blog that I subscribe to in my RSS feed is RubyLearning Blog. Since September of last year, they’ve been posting (approximately bi-weekly) programming challenges for newcomers to Ruby appropriately named Ruby Programming Challenge For Newbies. Outside of the class I took at Sierra College and a couple Rails projects I’ve thrown together on my [...]
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Django, APPEND_SLASH, and the 301 HTTP Status Code

By Adam Lum | Published: January 14, 2010
This may be common knowledge for folks who are much more versed in Django than myself, but here’s a short post of something I ran into today with a web application of mine that’s using Django. Checking my website out in Google’s Webmaster Tools I noticed that it’s report on my sitemap.xml file contained a “Redirect [...]
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PoolServicer.com is Live!

By Adam Lum | Published: July 30, 2009
I have just launched the PoolServicer.com website.  For a limited time we’re having free beta sign ups at http://www.poolservicer.com/beta. PoolServicer.com is a listing of individuals and companies who service and maintain swimming pools, spas, hot tubs, and the like, searchable by zip code. For folks who service and maintain swimming pools and don’t have a website already, [...]
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Slowly Learning to Say No

By Adam Lum | Published: March 12, 2009
Currently, I have a full-time job in the public sector which I don’t hate, an equity-compensated role which is exciting, a couple personal projects on the plate which are exciting, an online class at a local community college, and a bit of hourly work from various places that provide me with extra spending money for [...]
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New Adam Carolla Podcast Show…

By Adam Lum | Published: February 24, 2009
This is definitely not tech related, but one of the joys of morning commute was listening to the Adam Carolla morning radio show, unfortunately last Friday (2/20/2009) was the last one. Fortunately for fans, Mr. Carolla has decided to spend his personal time, money, and probably quite a bit of energy continuing his “radio” show, now [...]
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Even More Progress

By Adam Lum | Published: February 19, 2009
I have to say, I’m really enjoying creating this personal project (still not ready to mention what it is) while learning Python and Django. It has given me the chance to dive right into Python, getting familiar with the standard types, methods, etc. I’m not saying that I’ve become an expert or anything like [...]
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Now I’m Getting Somewhere

By Adam Lum | Published: February 13, 2009
I’ve finally gotten the ball rolling on one of the personal projects I’ve had in mind for a while now. Though I don’t want to divulge what that idea is at the moment (it’s not exactly mind-blowing or world-changing), I think it may be something folks in that particular niche may pay a small [...]
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Slow Progress…

By Adam Lum | Published: January 21, 2009
Not too much to write about in terms of personal projects or discovery, working on features for psuedo-deadlines have been keeping me busy. Plus, I have picked up a new MacBook Pro (my first Mac) and getting acquainted with that has occupied time as well. Though there’s noting really to report, I do however want to [...]
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First Post…

By Adam Lum | Published: January 15, 2009
Hi, thanks for visiting. In between the daily job, contract work, and of course family and friend obligations, I recently setup a VPS at Linode for the purpose of developing web application ideas, an environment for becoming more familiar with certain programming languages or tools, and the like. This blog will give me a place to document [...]
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