Another Day In The Code Mines

Yet another infrequently-updated blog, this one about the daily excitement of working in the software industry.

Sunday, January 24, 2010

JavaScript by example: functions and function objects

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I've been working in JavaScript a lot these last couple of months, and I feel like I've learned a lot. I wanted to show some of the ...
Sunday, June 07, 2009

PuzzleTwist is now available!

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My latest creation is now up on the iTunes App Store. It's called PuzzleTwist , and it's a puzzle game where you unscramble a pictur...
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Tuesday, May 12, 2009

The eyes have it - a tale of 3 vision problems

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I'm recovering from a head cold today, so rather than try to do heavy programming work, I decided to write up a personal story that I...
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Release early, release often...

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Six Apps In Six Months - or, Why Mark Can't Schedule That was the plan, anyway - but I haven't been able to keep myself on track. It...
Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Easter Pictems - a marketing experiment

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I'm trying an experiment. There's a free version of Pictems up on the App Store now, loaded with just the subset of items appropriat...
Thursday, March 05, 2009

Obsolescence is a pain in the neck...

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I'm trying to clean out some of the unused/unloved technology around the house. An interesting case that I'm currently working on is...
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Monday, February 16, 2009

Grr. Blogger hates me.

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It won't even scale images correctly if I use the "upload image" tool. Oh, well. click the image to see the full comic...

A New Kind of Science meets XKCD

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400 pages down, 450 to go. Here's my impression so far, with a little help from xkcd : Conspiracy Theories String Theory
Saturday, February 07, 2009

A New Kind Of Science

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I'm currently struggling my way through Stephen Wolfram's book A New Kind Of Science . So far, I've made it to about page 200 or...
Tuesday, February 03, 2009

Well, I'm getting better...

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I updated my Blogger layout to the "new and improved" form of the old layout. I'm not sure how "improved" it is, but...
Saturday, January 24, 2009

This week's iPhone SDK sob story

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I have ranted about this before, I know, but I'm a little irritated. Every single time I update the iPhone tools, I run into some crazy ...
Sunday, December 28, 2008

A math problem

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Okay, so here's an example of where dropping out of math classes after Differential Equations is coming back to bite me a bit. I'm w...
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Thursday, November 13, 2008

Synchronicity...

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A couple of posts ago , I said: Hopefully backsliding on the Java thing doesn't mean I'm about to backslide on the WoW thing - I can...
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Just In Time compilation vs. the desktop and embedded worlds

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Okay, rant mode on. As I was waiting for Eclipse to launch again today, it occured to me that one of the enduring mysteries of Java (and C#/...
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Tuesday, November 04, 2008

Vote.

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It's election day today in America. THis is just a quick reminder for all my friends out there to get out and vote. Vote. Even if "...
Sunday, October 19, 2008

Returning to Java, after 10 years away

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I'm once again writing Java code professionally, something that I haven't done in nearly 10 years (no, really - I had to stop and th...
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Sunday, September 28, 2008

So, what's it good for? (XO Laptop, part 3)

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(I wrote this quite a while back, but was never really happy with how it turned out. Here it is, nevertheless) See also Part 1 and Part 2  ...
Thursday, August 28, 2008

Cleaning out the backlog...

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Working it to death... It occurs to me that writing a long blog post, then saving it as a draft, and sitting on it for months, occasionally ...

Team Building: cautionary tales

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I happened to read this article over at The Daily WTF, and it reminded me of some previous team-building events I've been subjected to ...
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Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Julia Child, International Super-spy

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They say "truth is stranger than fiction", and stories like this one prove that beyond any doubt: By BRETT J. BLACKLEDGE and RAND...
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