dsamojlenko
dsamojlenko
@dsamojlenko@dave.samojlenko.com

I am a web developer at Canadian Digital Service, living in Ottawa. I write code with PHP, Laravel, Javascript, and Python, among other languages and frameworks.

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  • In The Kitchen – Wine Marinated Braised Beef Short Ribs

    Originally posted on FineDiners.ca Second Time’s a charm? So this is my second go-around with braised beef short ribs – I LOVE this dish.  Last time was great, but I couldn’t stop thinking about the ways I could improve on my first attempt, now that I had a bit of experience with braising and in…

  • Sad Trombone

    For those sad trombone moments

  • I find your lack of pants disturbing

    Top 278 Star Wars Lines Improved By Replacing A Word With “Pants”

  • Recipe Box for Friday 13 February 2009

    Sweet Valentine’s Coeur a la Creme with Strawberry Sauce Bacon Cheeseburger Explosion! Pork Schnitzel Chocolate Truffles Perfect Roast Chicken with Pomegranate Jus The Recipe Box feature on FineDiners.ca features recently found recipes that have caught our eye from around the web.  Some we’ve tried, some we hope to try soon.

  • FineDiners.ca: Leftover Risotto Fritters

    My latest post over at FineDiners.ca is an instructional on what to do with leftover Risotto.  Answer: Risotto Fritters. “In Italy there are only two legitimate uses for yesterday’s risotto:  Risotto al Salto (risotto pancakes) or Suppli di Telefono (Risotto Fritters).  I made some Mushroom Risotto last week, and surprisingly had a little leftover the…

  • What do you do with day-after Risotto?

    Originally posted on FineDiners.ca In Italy there are only two legitimate uses for yesterday’s risotto:  Risotto al Salto (risotto pancakes) or Suppli di Telefono (Risotto Fritters).  I made some Mushroom Risotto last week, and surprisingly had a little leftover the next day, so I decided to try my hand at making the fritters.  Hit the…

  • Top 10 moments caught on Google Maps Street View

    Top 10 moments caught on Google Maps Street View

  • I do not recommend this

    Mike Nelson (of Mystery Science Theater 3000 fame) is going to eat only bacon for a month: Now for the fine print: “Bacon” shall hereafter refer to the cured and smoked fatty cuts of pork, either back, side or belly. In other words “American bacon”. No “Canadian bacon”, which is really just lunchmeat. No pork…

  • What’s so great about The Wire?

    UC Berkeley is offering a course on The Wire: “Discerning critics and avid fans have agreed that the five-season run of Ed Burns and David Simon’s The Wire was “the best TV show ever broadcast in America”–not the most popular but the best. The 60 hours that comprise this episodic series have been aptly been…

  • Recipe Box for February 5 2009

    The Recipe Box feature on FineDiners.ca features recently found recipes that have caught our eye from around the web.  Some we’ve tried, some we hope to try soon. Mushroom Ragout on Garlic Toast Makin Bacon Shrimp Wrapped with Bacon Bacon Cups! The Perfect Restaurant Steak Avocado and Salmon Stack