Introduction
Hi, I'm Adam Kahtava, welcome to my portfolio site. I'm a software developer living in Calgary (Canada) - learn more in my biography.
Vision Statement
To network with, inspire, and learn from likeminded professionals through my work and writing; while presenting my professional portfolio to the software community. This site acts as my metaphoric workbench it's a place where I can learn, innovate, research and present my findings to interested professionals.
Recent Journal / Blog Entries
Thursday, December 04, 2008
Fun With Twitter
I think of Twitter as a mash up of instant messaging, IRC, and the web. It's a great tool for keeping abreast of the global technical sphere and a great place to connect with people from your local community. The flexibility of Twitter, it's growing user base, and it's APIs are probably what has accelerated its use. A couple neat examples of the flexibility of Twitter that I've seen are: Mo Kahn using Jott to transcribe his phone ....
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Wednesday, December 03, 2008
The Best Teacher I Ever Had: An Ode to Stephan Regoczei
The most interesting courses at school were my non Computer Science courses (the comp sci courses were pretty easy since the instructors depended heavily on code samples and textbooks), and Stephen Regoczei's course on Digital Multimedia tops my list for being the most interesting and inspirational course. I usually picked my summer course while tree planting since most of the course syllabuses were online, but Regoczei's course (....
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Monday, December 01, 2008
I WANT MEANS if I want it enough I will get it.
I WANT MEANS if I want it enough I will get it. Getting what you want means making the decisions you need to make to get what you want. Not the decisions those around you should make. Making the safe decision is dull predictable and leads nowhere new. The unsafe decision causes you to think and respond in a way you hadn't thought of. And that thought will lead to other thoughts which will help you achieve what you want. Start makin....
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