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Fundraising Levels

By rkalajian Thursday March 11, 2010

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Remember my post, Hair Raising, where I said I’d be coming up with more crazy ideas to raise money?

Here’s the entire bracket of crazy shit I’ll do depending on how much money I raise.

$500 – I’ll give myself a mohawk.

$1000 – I’ll dye that mohawk hot pink.

$1500 – I’ll shave that hot pink mohawk into a horn on the front of my head.

$2000 – I’ll get a tattoo of a puzzle piece (an icon usually used in the Autism community) on my right forearm.

I hope to have a donation meter on this site soon, but you can always see how much I’ve raised on my Walk page.

Jumping Into .NET

By rkalajian Wednesday March 10, 2010

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While I had posted about getting into Rails at work, it’s now been decided we’re changing directions and becoming a .NET shop.

Yikes. I don’t know anything about .NET.

Thankfully our lead developer does, and I’ll be provided with proper resources to learn it.

I never saw myself as ever developing in .NET. Ever. That’s about to change, and I’m hoping it’ll be an overall positive experience. At the very least I’ll have a new skill to list on my resume.

I have to admit I was a bit disheartened by this news at first, and a bit resistant to it. In the end the important thing is that I keep my job, so I might as well jump into this full hog, and be the best damn .NET developer I can be.

You can probably expect to see more on here about my journey learning C#, ASP.NET, and whatever other Microsoft, .NET, mumbo-jumbo keywords there are out there.

Read an RPG in Public Week

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Yup. There’s me reading a copy of the HDL Universal Tactical Role-playing System Basic Rules at work.
All this week is Read an RPG in Public Week. It’s meant to get the hobby “out of the basement” and into the public eye.
I already game at work, and keep a few of my RPG books there on [...]

Hair-Raising

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As many who read my blog know, my family participates in Walk now for Autism. Last year was the first year we walked, shortly after our son was diagnosed with PDD-NOS.
Well we’re starting to take donations again. Along with general donations, events, and raffles we have scheduled for this year, I decided to do something special.
Last year [...]

Rob on Rails

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I’m just wrapping up my second full Rails project at work, and I have to say that I’m slowly getting the hang of things.
It’s wonderful (and frustrating) that I can look back at my first project and realize all the things I did wrong. The good part about that is a lot of the [...]