Eric Fickes » motivation http://ericfickes.com Design minded Internet Programmer Fri, 28 Oct 2011 04:14:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 2 of 10,388 days remaining #TRON http://ericfickes.com/2010/12/2-of-10388-days-remaining-tron/ http://ericfickes.com/2010/12/2-of-10388-days-remaining-tron/#comments Wed, 15 Dec 2010 18:38:36 +0000 Eric Fickes http://ericfickes.posterous.com/2-of-10388-days-remaining-tron Continue reading →]]> – Using tsql to figure out how long until TRON:LEGACY

DECLARE @tron datetime,
@tron_legacy datetime
SET @tron = ’7/9/1982 12:00:00′
SET @tron_legacy = ’12/17/2010 12:00:00′
SELECT CAST( DATEDIFF( DD, GETDATE(), @tron_legacy ) as varchar(2) ) + ‘ of’ + CAST ( DATEDIFF( DD, @tron, @tron_legacy ) AS VARCHAR(1000) ) + ‘ days remaining’ as ‘How long until TRON:LEGACY?’
– returns
– 2 of10388 days remaining

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I saw a 23 minute sneak peek of TRON:LEGACY on Imax last night. The teaser blew me away, now I can’t wait for December 17 when it comes out in theaters. My iPhone dide make it into the theater, but I failed at bootlegging the preview.

Take my word for it. If you like the original Tron, super high tech design, or Jeff Bridges, go see TRON:LEGACY in December.

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]]> http://ericfickes.com/2010/10/tronnight/feed/ 0 eMpower2 http://ericfickes.com/2010/08/empower2/ http://ericfickes.com/2010/08/empower2/#comments Sat, 14 Aug 2010 06:42:28 +0000 Eric Fickes http://ericfickes.com/?p=1633 Continue reading →]]> This piece is called eMpower2 and it was free handed on my MacBook Pro’s magical trackpad.  The application used was Mr.Doob’s Harmony drawing tool.  It’s the sweetest open source HTML5 drawing tool I’ve seen yet.  I have a feeling we’re going to see a lot of HTML5 based drawing tools soon.

I'm reliving a favorite project from my past

The past repeats itself, stay true to your game and yourself

]]> http://ericfickes.com/2010/08/empower2/feed/ 2 10 .9 . 8 – A website becomes a man http://ericfickes.com/2008/10/10-9-8-a-website-becomes-a-man/ http://ericfickes.com/2008/10/10-9-8-a-website-becomes-a-man/#comments Thu, 09 Oct 2008 06:48:13 +0000 Eric Fickes http://ericfickes.com/?p=137 Continue reading →]]> Tonight is the next step in this year’s internet experiment.  As you can see, I have upgraded the html page to a rhobust, synergy of bleeding edge, web two point oh! technologies.  Ipso Facto, el WordPress-o.

This was the year I decided to bring it to the internets.  Since I write code for a living, it’s been an endless dream to built the perfect CMS to power my name dot com.  The constant struggle over which technology to use, how simple or complex to make it, and the endless ‘oh yeah’s.  So I decided to roll old school and made one large html page.  That was fun for a while, but I’m done the “webmaster” thing.  I’m very excited and impressed with WordPress.  Now if I can only figure out the rest of the system.  So many themes, so many widgets, so little time.

So now it’s live, and on to the dribble.  After the jump?

Been checking out Fuser lately.  I had mistaken them for another Feed Aggregator, but turns out they do email and social.  Gotta say it’s starting to grow on me.  Another part of this year’s internet experiment was to dive back into the scene through RSS and the major social sites.  I was cooking for a while, but started to get data burnout.  I had to cut down on the input.

Since then I’ve steared clear of aggregators.  I’ve gotten off RSS for Twitter and haven’t looked back.  While I don’t see myself using Fuser everyday, I can see myself using it.  It’s starting to grow on me now that I know it’s not a Flex app.  Now I’m actually digging the BeOS-ish bubbly design.  When I found the Exchange integration, that’s when I knew I’d be coming back.  

Can’t wait to see what new site I’ll find tomorrow.

]]> http://ericfickes.com/2008/10/10-9-8-a-website-becomes-a-man/feed/ 1 A few motiviational pieces http://ericfickes.com/2008/10/a-few-motiviational-pieces/ http://ericfickes.com/2008/10/a-few-motiviational-pieces/#comments Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:12:46 +0000 Eric Fickes http://ericfickes.com/?p=3 Continue reading →]]> I have a running list of random media that I like to use for motivation when working on personal projects. This is one of many lists I try to maintain in my head. I recently added a new item to this list and decided to start documenting this list here. What prompted me to start documenting this list is a book I received from Amazon today.  That book is Core Memory – A visual survey of vintage computers.

Core Memory

Core Memory

This book is amazing, and I added this sucker to my motivational list as soon as I saw it online. And now for the list.

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