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Life and Love and Why - willnorris.com
willnorris.com/2006/life-and-love-and-why/
Life
went on, and we lost touch for about a year or so until my initial contact with USC in October. I got back in touch with her to let her know what was going on, and the timing was finally right - everything just clicked. Even though the job didn't work out and it didn't look like I would be moving to LA, the machine had already ...
Intentionally Positive - Will Norris
willnorris.com/2021/intentionally-positive/
We must strive to be intentionally positive. Being intentionally positive is not something that happens by accident. It's not something you stumble into, and I suspect that it does not come naturally to many people. By definition, being intentionally positive is a conscious and deliberate choice to behave in a particular way.
Bigger and Better Things - Will Norris
willnorris.com/2009/bigger-and-better-things/
Neither Elisabeth nor I have fully adjusted to the way of
life
in San Francisco (we currently live in SoMa, right next to downtown). I'm sure we could find something quieter in other parts of the bay area, but for us it's still not the same. I've found that I click much better with the Portland Tech scene personality-wise, and it's ...
Gabriel Update - Will Norris
willnorris.com/2015/gabriel-update/
Finally, we also did two newborn photo shoots this week, trying to capture this brief moment in his
life
while we can. The video below and photos throughout this post are from the first shoot we did on Monday with Monica Michelle, who we absolutely love and have been working with all throughout and even before the pregnancy.
Identity and Identifiers
willnorris.com/2010/identity-and-identifiers/
Perhaps at some level I wanted to mark this new beginning in my
life
. I was leaving behind everyone I knew, and would be starting fresh with school, with friends… with everything. Maybe I wanted a new name to represent this new part of my
life
. Or perhaps I was simply emulating my older brother Steven, who at the time had chosen to go by ...
Looking back on 22
willnorris.com/2005/looking-back-on-22/
I think it was sometime in high school that I decided 22 had to be the best age… you are old enough to drink (but a year into it, so the simple novelty of it has passed), hopefully finished with or finishing up college, maybe getting ready to start that first big full-time job, maybe married or at least thinking about it… you're finishing off the "preparation" and ready to really ...
Thoughts on Proposition 8 - Will Norris
willnorris.com/2008/thoughts-on-proposition-8/
California's Proposition 8, which proposes a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriages, has certainly been a recent topic of discussion around ours and many Californian's dinner tables. I've talked with friends, family members, and colleagues, listening to the various arguments people have on each side of the issue.
thought for the day
willnorris.com/2003/thought-for-the-day/
there is never enough hot water in the shower of
life
. that is all.
Books I Read in 2015 - willnorris.com
willnorris.com/2016/books-i-read-in-2015/
The first story is set in the International Space Station, and spends a lot of time describing
life
in space, the physics of space, orbital mechanics, etc. I know a lot of readers found that boring, but I actually enjoyed it. A lot of action is shoved into the end of the first story in a way that felt very rushed and then, in typical Stephenson ...
Archive - Will Norris
willnorris.com/archives/
don't lose focus. About; Archive; now; 2023. search query; unrot; Accessing go links across tailnets Nov 2, 2023; Tailscale devices with a custom domain Nov 1, 2023; Caddy snippets for static
sites
Oct 27, 2023; A fun little personal logo Oct 27, 2023; Tailscale at the Pinewood Derby May 5, 2023; 2022
Boxed Mac and Cheese - Will Norris
willnorris.com/2021/mac-and-cheese/
What I saw my wife do was nothing less than
life
-altering. Okay, well at least I still think about it every time I make mac and cheese, some 10 years later. You don't mix the sauce ingredients into the pasta-filled pan like a monster! That is the way to clumpy, grainy, cheese-powder disaster. Instead, leave the pasta in the strainer and make ...
Moving to San Francisco
willnorris.com/2008/moving-to-san-francisco/
Like I said, it's really perfect for us. The one major downside is that the kitchen is rather small, especially compared to what Elisabeth has been used to all her
life
, but we'll manage. We've also just about finished our post-wedding shopping for furniture and kitchen stuff to outfit our new home.
Directed Identity vs Identifier Select - Will Norris
willnorris.com/2009/openid-directed-identity-identifier-select/
Just as people are not one dimensional in real
life
, it was quickly apparent that there was value in allowing users to maintain multiple sets of identity data, generally called "personas", that could be presented to different websites. I could have a "personal" persona which included different data than my "work" persona.
Why - willnorris.com
willnorris.com/slides/wcsf2013/
Will Norris
willnorris.com
. Hi, I'm Will Norris. You can find me online at
willnorris.com
.. I'm an engineer in Google's Open Source Programs Office, where we provide technical and policy infrastructure for Google's various open source efforts.We help ensure that Google complies with the licenses of the open source software we use internally, help Googlers release their code as open source, and ...
Launching the Google+ Platform
willnorris.com/2011/launching-the-google-platform/
A couple of months ago, I mentioned how excited I was to reveal to family and friends what I've been working on at Google for the last year or so, Google+.Well, that was only partly true. What I've really been working on is the Google+ Platform, which we are finally starting to roll out today. In many respects, today's announcement is perhaps more exciting for myself and the team than it ...
Best Practices with Directed Identity
willnorris.com/2009/best-practices-with-directed-identity/
Given the current discussion happening right now around federal website cookie policies, and the good response I got from my last post, I wanted to continue talking about directed identity a little bit.In this post, I want to talk about how directed identity has actually been implemented in projects I've been involved with, and what lessons can be learned from that.
iTunes 9, now with more WebKit - Will Norris
willnorris.com/2009/itunes-9-now-with-more-webkit/
As John Gruber predicted yesterday, iTunes 9 certainly uses WebKit much more than the last version. I used wireshark to do a packet trace when I clicked on the Rock Music section. Sure enough, if you gunzip the response, it is effectively standard HTML (though they do declare a custom XML namespace for everything).
WordPress MU in a development environment - Will Norris
willnorris.com/2008/wordpress-mu-in-a-development-environment/
Most of the development I do for my job is within WordPress, so I have quite a few WordPress instances running on my local workstation. I've been using the same custom Apache setup for three years, and have been developing on WordPress for almost as long, so I've been a bit bewildered with the amount of trouble I've had the several times I've attempted to get WordPress MU running on my ...
The Open Stack (in PHP)
willnorris.com/2009/the-open-stack-in-php/
A couple of months or so ago, I made a conscious shift in my focus with the DiSo Project. Instead of continuing to concentrate on some of the higher level deliverables like WordPress plugins, I decided it was time to step back and evaluate where the development community (specifically the PHP development community) is with the Open Stack.
WordPress Plugin Pet Peeve #1: Hardcoding wp-content - Will Norris
willnorris.com/2009/wordpress-plugin-pet-peeve-hardcoding-wp-content/
Perhaps my biggest pet peeves I run across with WordPress plugins is when developers hardcode the URL or path to the WordPress content folder. By default this folder is named 'wp-content', and resides at the root of the primary WordPress folder.
Java OpenID Library Design - Message Handling - Will Norris
willnorris.com/2009/java-openid-library-design-message-handling/
This past June I contracted with Internet2 to work on adding OpenID support to the Shibboleth Identity Provider. I had actually started to work on this over a year prior while working at USC. At the time there were (and still are) two primary OpenID libraries in Java, Verisign's JOID, and Sxip's OpenID4Java.I spent a fair amount of time looking at both libraries, but ultimately decided ...
Sitemap - willnorris.com
willnorris.com/sitemap/
This is a list of all pages on this
site
, grouped by section and type.
wordpress microID plugin
willnorris.com/2006/wordpress-microid-plugin/
(I was going to post this as a comment to Richard's post which I found from the microID blog, but then it started to get kinda long so I decided to just write this here).. I'm a little confused by his use of microID in the comments. In addition to adding microIDs to the blog HEAD and posts, Richard's plugin (which I have installed here) adds a microID to blog comments that is computed ...
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