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Mike Mason » flying circuits
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This theme has been downloaded from wordpress themes. Flying is still going great! I am now out of the simulator and have moved onto “upper air work” (slow flight, stalls, spins, steep turns) as well as forced landings in the practice area near Morley, Alberta. Oops I certainly wouldn’t buy a plane that had had someone like me learn in it! That’d be like buying an ex-taxi when shopping for a car—don’t! I also got to the end of the first page in my pilot logbook. Mike on August 9th 2013 in Flying.
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Mike Mason » Ruby
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This theme has been downloaded from wordpress themes. Archive for the 'Ruby' Category. Security Advisory: Multiple Rails Vulnerabilities. If your Rails application is available outside your corporate firewall, or to the public, I strongly recommend you patch or upgrade your application immediately. If your Rails application is protected by a corporate firewall the risk is somewhat reduced, but I still recommend you patch or upgrade as soon as possible. Multi xml vulnerability patch.
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Mike Mason » Technology
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This theme has been downloaded from wordpress themes. Archive for the 'Technology' Category. Skype for Group Calls: Experience Report. We’ve been using Skype for regular calls between a group of ThoughtWorks technologists in North America, for about the past year. We’ve had good experiences so I thought I’d write a few notes about it. First off, the tech itself. A typical call includes both video, audio-only, and PSTN dial-in participants. Here’s what you need:. For call prep, I do these steps:. As the c...
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Mike Mason » Private Pilot Mason
http://mikemason.ca/blog/2013/09/private-pilot-mason
This theme has been downloaded from wordpress themes. I’m very excited to report that I passed my Private Pilot flight test this weekend! I’m not quite a licensed pilot yet—I still have to do a long cross country flight with an instructor, and then the same flight on my own. This mostly involves not getting lost, though, so it’s more about getting it done than anything else. The flight test is definitely the hard part. Mike on September 30th 2013 in Flying.
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Mike Mason » Version Control
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This theme has been downloaded from wordpress themes. Archive for the 'Version Control' Category. CollabNet Subversion Server for Windows. Since Pragmatic Guide to Subversion. Went to press, CollabNet has updated their Subversion server. If you want to follow the instructions in the book, use this link. There’s another excellent server for Windows from the lovely people at VisualSVN. If you’re interested, check out my screencast. Showing how to use it. Mike on November 27th 2010 in Subversion. I’m ...
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Mike Mason » 2013 » September
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This theme has been downloaded from wordpress themes. Archive for September, 2013. I’m very excited to report that I passed my Private Pilot flight test this weekend! I’m not quite a licensed pilot yet—I still have to do a long cross country flight with an instructor, and then the same flight on my own. This mostly involves not getting lost, though, so it’s more about getting it done than anything else. The flight test is definitely the hard part. Mike on September 30th 2013 in Flying. The good news is t...
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Mike Mason » First Steps to Flying
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This theme has been downloaded from wordpress themes. First Steps to Flying. I’ve always wanted to learn to fly. When I was a kid I watched Sky Pirates. Sometime later I read Roald Dahl’s autobiographical books Boy and Going Solo. This was an amazing tale of an overly tall englishman learning to fly a Spitfire in the second world war, and his adventures in Africa during that time. When I got to uni I was crestfallen to realize the Oxford University Air Squadron. We flew a Cessna 152,. Seriously, the minu...
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Mike Mason » Security Advisory: Multiple Rails Vulnerabilities
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This theme has been downloaded from wordpress themes. Security Advisory: Multiple Rails Vulnerabilities. If your Rails application is available outside your corporate firewall, or to the public, I strongly recommend you patch or upgrade your application immediately. If your Rails application is protected by a corporate firewall the risk is somewhat reduced, but I still recommend you patch or upgrade as soon as possible. The following links have more detail on the Rails vulnerabilities and remediation:.
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Mike Mason » Data Visualization Showcase
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This theme has been downloaded from wordpress themes. As part of an internal event here at ThoughtWorks, I’ve been putting together various Big Data and Visualization related stuff. Some of it’s worth sharing outside ThoughtWorks, so I’ll post a few things here. First up is a Visualization Showcase. Look at all this cool stuff you can do with data! The next image is a representation of tweets between Twitter’s first 140 employees. Source: Connections among Twitter employees. Do women rule the Internet?