Derek Brown

Media and musings from a family man, joyful leader, reverse engineer, and party animal.

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If you want review the slides or go back over Edwards' resolutions or the Steinbeck quotes from this morning, I've posted the Keynote here on Slideshare.

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The incredible holiday season that has been the last two weeks would end perfectly if Dallas loses tonight. #GoLions

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Oakridge mall floor. #sanjose #photography #VSCOcam #texture #blackandwhite via Instagram http://ift.tt/147IHDl

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"See more of derekbrown's VSCO Grid. " This is Emma's building: the triangles here are just for decoration. :)

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"See more of derekbrown's VSCO Grid. " Ava enjoying her Christmas present from Dad. She can explain "three-dimensional" vs. "two-dimensional" and knows that triangles create stronger buildings overall. #engineer

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To ring in the new year, we should raise a glittering sphere into the air. After all, don’t we usually pick up the ball after the East Coast drops it? #WestCoastBias #TakeThatNewYork

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"Leaving 2014, Welcoming 2015 " Thanks to everyone who came. It was a pleasure laughing, eating, dancing, and celebrating with you.

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Thanks to everyone who came. It was a pleasure laughing, eating, dancing, and celebrating with you.

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In a digital world, there's still a place for things like paper notebooks. They can't cause distractions in meetings and don't require Wi-Fi.

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This is one of my favorite pictures of Ava. I took it at Monterey Bay Aquarium, when just she & I were walking around together. Her face exudes joy. #VSCOcam via Instagram http://instagram.com/p/xOsXZWgIn4/

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The San Francisco 49ers’ coach search will be interesting. My money’s on Josh McDaniels from New England, but my heart’s on Jim Tomsula.

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With the Eagles out of the playoffs this year, I think I’ll be joining Robert Escobedo in cheering on the Broncos.

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Converting MongoDB ObjectIDs to Strings in Play/Scala

I struggled for far too long to convert the MongoDB ObjectID into a string (to be consumed by my front-end Ember application), within my Play Framework application using ReactiveMongo. It all boils down to the model's reads being transformed before being read. A sample model is included below. Hope this helps.

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"Deorro - Five Hours (FewNotes Remix)" by FewNotes

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"Runaway (U & I) (Dillon Francis Remix)" by Galantis

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"San Francisco doesn’t get nearly as inundated with nativity scenes as the places where a lot of us grew up. Whether you’re totally fine with that or missing them with some nostalgic,… " The Nativity scene, as pictured by San Francisco.