karlgrz

2025 was the first year in quite some time where I released original music.

Hi!

“2024.”

2023 was a really tough year.

Lots of really great records came out last year.

Another weird year.

“2020”.

2019 my consumption went down compared to previous years.

2018 I consumed about as much as 2017, I think.

2017 I feel like I listened to less new stuff than last year.

2016 was just as musically fruitful as 2015 was.

Recently, I’ve been using vim within tmux for a lot of my development.

2015 will go down as another legendary year of hard rock and metal album releases this decade.

Tonight I was chatting with someone interested in buying a Dell XPS 15 versus a Macbook Pro.

In the beginning… For the past few years I’ve used KeePass as my password management solution, both for personal and work related credentials.

I’ve been running Ubuntu Desktop on my desktop machine at home for a few years now (I put together a great system in January 2014).

Another year down, another year where my only post is about my favorite records.

I listened to quite a lot of new music this year.

I’ve started playing around with a Raspberry Pi recently.

At Mediafly we have been using Puppet for a lot of our configuration management.

One of the things that makes distributed systems development somewhat of a challenge is interacting with all the remote APIs that your system requires to function properly.

This is one of my favorite things about LINQ in C#.

We have a small monitoring Flask web app using SQLAlchemy that we use to keep an eye on the status of some jobs in our processing pipeline.

Off and on for the past couple of months I’ve been working on a side project using flask, zeromq, and the remix api by echo nest.

So I’ve been working on a little side project web app to get familiar with both flask (a python web microframework) and zeromq (the socket library that acts as a concurrency framework), along with remix from echonest.

I was having trouble running a .NET 4.0, MVC3 web application locally on IIS after building in VS2012.

These, in my opinion, are the best 10 records I heard from 2012.

I had the unfortunate annoyance of trying to get Ubuntu Desktop 12.10 Guest Additions working on VirtualBox 4.24, which have a strong desire to NOT install linux kernel headers.

Using RabbitMQ on Amazon EC2 is an easy, performant way to operate a service oriented application.

Which one of these gets me ImgBurn?

It has been AGES since I’ve put anything down on paper.

Recently I spent some time investigating the Google Data .NET Client library.

Today I started a new chapter in my life.

So, in the theme of the holidays (and, coincidentally, jockin’ Kyle’s style), here’s my top 10 albums of 2009.

One of the greatest shredders to ever pick up an axe, Dimebag Darrell of Pantera and DamagePlan fame, was shot and killed onstage in Columbus, Ohio 5 years ago today in a heinous act, along with others that tried to stop the killer, and the killer himself.

As of October 26th, 2009, I am a new homeowner!

I just received this in the mail this morning!

I’ve been testing out Opera Mini Beta 5 on my Blackberry Storm for about a week now, and I’m ready to ditch both the Blackberry default browser and Opera Mini 4.

Today I began work on designing my first Blackberry smartphone application.

I hate writing documentation.

A short while ago I came to a realization that the ice:dataExporter component that I was using to export table data from my ICEFaces application was not behaving exactly how I liked it.

This might not be news to everyone (or anyone…) but the kind folks over at Lifehacker have put together a great post that streamlines how to set up permanent tabs in Firefox and some other goodies for GMail & Google Reader.

Here’s the scenario: Your user has this web application that runs a data process.

Last week was a greatly productive week, in my opinion.

These images are being used for the following Stack Overflow question: Dynamically generate ice:commandButton components

I’ve come across many instances in the past where I have needed to duplicate permissions for a single user or role on SQL Server 2005 (usually when trying to version control permissions for a department or group of users, for example).

Sometimes when running tomcat inside eclipse there are processes that throw OutOfMemory errors (creating an extremely large Excel file, for instance) that are not thrown on our production servers.

This evening I wanted to put a little effort into enabling syntax highlighting for code in my posts here on Blogger.

I’ve been putting this off for such a long time.