Category Archives: inspiration
Skinned Programming Paradigms
Here’s a free thought for you. How much of people choice in programming languages is really syntax dependent? For example, I dislike Java (I hate it for other reasons) simply because of the verbosity of ‘System.out.println’ and don’t really understand … Continue reading
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Build your own ioGun!
I apologize for what will effectively be a brain dump post, but a new friend of mine from the hackaday forums is getting started on his own accelerometer controlled system and I wanted to see if I could save him … Continue reading
Posted in code, hardware, inspiration, iobridge, opensource, python
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What do I win… ?
I have a confession to make which probably won’t surprise many of you, least of all my wife. I hope it’s a minor flaw that doesn’t make me too intolerable but the fact is: I like to be right. I … Continue reading
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Educate yourself and while you’re at it, others too
As I wrote yesterday I love TED Talks… oh yea and I did also mention a growing sense of disenfranchisement. I try not to take the information I gather for granted, and one of the joys I experience is in … Continue reading
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Working at a large technology company I’m familiar with the “graying” of IT. While often public perspective on “technology” is skewed by the Kevin Rose‘s of the world in enterprise situations it’s often much different. It’s not uncommon to start … Continue reading
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My how long it’s been…
6 weeks! Wow, yes it’s really been that long since I started reading Programming Collective Intelligence and last posted here. A lot has happened during that time, my wife got a new job and because of that we moved. We’re … Continue reading
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Even an Apple goes bad now and then…
I seem to be having a confluence of technology issues recently. Dreamhost, which I’ve loved until now can’t seem to follow through on a simple request (so that I can pay them!!!). And that 1TB drive I “gave” myself for … Continue reading
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iPhone’s Safari – not for geeks
I was watching a presentation on my iPhone on implementation of MapReduce for multi-core and multi-processor systems… You can find out more about it at the project’s website. Before you go.. note the “~christos” part of the URL. In UNIX-speak … Continue reading
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Quick Inspiration for Apple
Just a quick post before the holidays, I’ll be traveling quite a bit so we’ll see how everything holds up. While planning out this trip, I was thinking about making a “My Maps” Google map. I tried this technique while … Continue reading
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Why am I Scared Sh*tless
I haven’t yet “made it out” whether that’s working for new man or on my own, but I have a few friends who have managed to make that type of transition, *hi guys*. In fact I have a friend that … Continue reading
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