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Brewer: Steve Downey – Beer: February Ale Style: American Amber Ale Type: All grain Size: 5.5 gallons Color: 13 HCU (~9 SRM) Bitterness: 38 IBU OG: 1.052 FG: (Est) 1.012 Alcohol: 5.2% v/v (4.1% w/w) (Estimated) Grain: 2 lb. Weyermann Dark Wheat10 lb. Weyermann Vienna1 lb. Weyermann Cara Amber Mash: 60% efficiency Boil: 60 minutes …

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Bill de hÓra: I think I figured out the list comprehensions thing…I’ve been trying to understand this stuff myself, and Bill de hÓra’s post has prodded me to write this down so I won’t forget it again.List comprehensions are really just syntatic sugar. And too much syntatic sugar can cause truth decay.List comprehensions are forms …

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This is me at the end of the day, playing with Blogger’s new mobile posting feature, and my new cell phone camera.

OktAle / NovemberfestI finished up the keg this week. That was pretty fast, for me. I usually end up with a few stray bottles of a brew hanging on forever. But, since the keg is really all or nothing, I just finished it up. The only down side is that I don’t have another brewing …

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Waterfall 2006 – International Conference on Sequential DevelopmentJust what we need. A solid return to the successful development practices of the early 80’s. The Waterfall development model, with emphasis on design up front, deliberate handoff between phases, a separate QA team, and producing extensive documentation at all times, is ripe for a comeback.

template metaprogramming – Google Searchgoddamnit – there ought to be more people who know more about template metaprogramming than I do by now. And Todd Veldhuizen was someone I cribbed notes from when I wrote that article. The Boost MPL stuff is excellent. Why aren’t there another dozen links talking about it?

Google Mobile – Personalized HomeWay cool. More neat stuff on my mobile phone.

You Passed 8th Grade Math Congratulations, you got 10/10 correct! Could You Pass 8th Grade Math?

So the beer has been brewed, and, as of this morning is bubbling away happily in the primary fermenter. It’s not as heavy as I had planned, coming out at 1.042 Original Gravity, partly due to brewing 5 1/2 gallons, rather than 5, and also to poor mash efficiency. I think I let the mash …

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Here’s the plan for today’s brew. An Alt, brewed with an Maerzen grain bill and hopping, so it should be similar in style to a O’fest. I’m planning a single decoction mash, so I’ll be pretty busy.Oktober AleRecipe oktober ale Style Oktoberfest/MarzenBrewer Steve Downey Batch 5.00 galRecipe CharacteristicsRecipe Gravity 1.054 OG Estimated FG 1.013 FGRecipe …

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