San Diego's finest yesterday – Point Loma. 🤮 What happened to our standards, to caring about our community? 🤦‍♂️ On the plus side, I recently noticed some cleanups in trashed areas I've called out in past tweets. Fine by me: cleanups > likes #litter #SanDiegoLitter #PointLoma https://t.co/tjy9v0oZcT

San Diego's finest yesterday – Point Loma. 🤮 What happened to our standards, to caring about our community? 🤦‍♂️ On the plus side, I recently noticed some cleanups in trashed areas I've called out in past tweets. Fine by me: cleanups > likes #litter #SanDiegoLitter #PointLoma https://t.co/tjy9v0oZcT

— Joe Egan (@J0e3gan) Feb 26, 2022

from Twitter https://twitter.com/J0e3gan

February 26, 2022 at 10:11AM
via J0e3gan

Eat Your Heart Out II

I finally posted a Yelp review of the deli that's been my favorite for nearly a decade — Eat Your Heart Out II in Poway.  If you're ever in the Poway area and hungry (i.e. portions fit for a post-moto or post-surfing chow down), stop in at EYHO, and check it out for yourself.

Highway 94 Ride in September

Playing a bit of catch-up, here are a couple pics of me riding my Yamaha R6 on Highway 94 in East San Diego County a few months ago, courtesy of hwy94photo.com:

If you want to see more pics and/or read a bit more about the ride, checkout my BikeBandit forums post.

Since I've been riding so much, I'll try to share more as I go in 2010!  Also, I'll share more of my 2009 pics and vids as I get through them - hopefully soon. :)

Winter 2008 SoCal Code Camp Dates Announced

SoCal Code Camp recently posted the dates for Winter 2008 Code Camp at Cal State Fullerton. If you develop software and live in or can get to Southern California, mark January 26th and 27th on your calendar.

Code camps are simply the most cost-effective (i.e. free), informative dev events I attend each year. They are for-developers-by-developers events, and this model produces great results in my experience.

The SoCal Code Camp gang organizes a code camp north of San Diego each winter, at Cal State Fullerton in the three years that I've followed them. They similarly hold one each summer in San Diego - usually at UCSD, although I've ironically attended fewer code camps in San Diego than up north. Go figure. (In my defense, summer in San Diego is a huge distraction!) 

Wherever you live, if you're a developer, there's a likely a code camp in your area. Check it out if you never have. You'll likely find sessions of interest to you - from basic .NET, Java, and Ruby sessions, to architecture, test-driven development, SQL Server BI, and WCF sessions. They're infectious. :-)

I plan to attend and present at January's code camp at CSU Fullerton. SoCal Code Camp indicates that it will open its site in October to session submissions; and as I learn more, I will follow with details.

IASA San Diego ITARC Next Month

IASA's San Diego ITARC (IT Architecture Regional Conference) is coming October 15th and 16th, and I look forward to attending both days.  I'm especially happy to see an architecture event come to San Diego, my other options generally being San Francisco and Chicago – not very convenient.

Plus, what a deal!  ITARC registration costs no more than airfare to a typical conference.

San Diego ITARC's speaker lineup, including IBM's (and IASA's own) Scott Ambler, looks great; and its sessions schedule looks good too. I can hardly wait!