January 2010
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Jan 31st
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Jan 30th
RIP JD Salinger.
I like many read and loved catcher in the rye, it’s a shame he never wrote much else. That is all.
Jan 29th
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Instructions on getting Nano-RK working with... →
Most people that do low level dev seem to like VIM and make and all that. I on the other hand like refactoring tool, code completion, and being able to type without pressing ‘i’ first. So I wrote up this little instruction thing on the Nano-RK website explaining how to get stuff going. Consider this my yearly good deed.
Jan 28th
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Am I the only one that thinks iPad is a really bad...
It conjures images of electronic sanitary napkins…. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1BUH9eXy18
Jan 27th
Jan 26th
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Jan 26th
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Jan 23rd
Oh the Supreme Irony →
Jan 22nd
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Jan 22nd
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Why I hate C++ mostly has to do with...
That it requires me to be a syntactically perfect programmer. Not normally a bad thing you’d say, and not even usually a problem. But when you ‘grow up’ in highly managed languages, or more over in highly developed IDEs you tend to expect to not have to worry about things like semi-colons any more. I program C++ currently in xCode, which should be a pretty bad ass IDE. Really it...
Jan 22nd
Is there not a default way to leave someone a comment on tumblr? Or is that a feature people just turn off?
Jan 21st
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Jan 21st
Craziness in Haiti... →
I got this from Adele’s blog, and it is well, just read it, and look at the pictures.
Jan 20th
CBC News - Calgary - Nellie's restaurants fined... →
charliegodsoe: Now’s the best time best time to eat at Nellie’s folks… It’s never been nor will it ever be this clean again. When I think of all the mouse poop I’ve eaten at this place, it’s astounding I don’t have the Hanta Virus.
Jan 19th
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C++ sucks.
So after 8 hours of hacking I finally wrote a C++ program that will parse a flat file into memory… Wow is this language frustrating, I could have done it in 15 minutes in Java! It is interesting to see where all the ideas in Java’s earlier days came from, I suspect they were all designed to ease the pain that I experienced today.
Jan 18th
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Arg!
After 4 hours of trying to compile build tools for Nano-RK, TinyOS, and MicaZ motes, I have determined that programming for embedded applications cannot be done on a mac without serious amounts of pain, lots of set backs, and general disappointment. Linux is downloading as we speak.
Jan 17th
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Fuller's Vintage Ale
In my continued loving of strange beer that comes in a clever point of sale packaging, I picked up a box / bottle of Fuller’s Vintage Ale. Each bottle is numbered, apparently they are trying to break into the hob knobby beer drinking market. “Individually packed and numbered, this bottle is one of only one hundred and sixty thousand produced.” “I have crafted this very...
Jan 16th
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Jan 16th
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Jan 15th
Tumblr sends passwords in the clear.
paulitex: I just sent this email to support@tumblr.com. I’m hoping by bringing a bit of attention to this fact the issue might get fixed a bit quicker. Hey there, First I want to thank you guys for making such an awesome blogging site. First web app I’ve been genuinely excited about discovering in a long time. Secondly, I wanted to ask you if you are aware that you are sending your users’...
Jan 15th
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Jan 15th
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Jan 14th
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Jan 14th
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Time to start remembering old forgotten math. Graphics course is about to step into linear algebra.
Jan 13th
Repost From Matygo : 2009 - A look back
matygo: Ok, I know I’m about 2 weeks late for the “2009 retrospective” blog posts. I wrote this up around New Years but wanted to work on it some more and have it vetted it by the guys before releasing it on the world. Here you are: “Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.” —CONFUCIUS. (551 BC -1912) Matygo was founded in 2009. This New Year...
Jan 13th
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Jan 12th
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Jan 12th
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Just pitched the yeast on a second batch of Winter... →
Jan 12th
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Recently Brewed, a tasty Blood Orange Heff →
Jan 12th
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[Repost from old Blog] A handy little AppleScript...
So I don’t blog much, and furthermore I hardly (if ever) blog about anything tech related. For a blog that claims to be about “tech talk” this is unacceptable :P So with that here is my first, and hopefully not my last, tech-ish blog post. If you are like me, and since you are reading this I am going to assume you are. Then you are a developer (or my friend) and you...
Jan 11th
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[Repost from old Blog] MPI on xCode
I am currently working on a small MPI project, and I had one hell of a time getting MPI up and running, specifically the MPICC (compiler) to work in xCode. So here it is if you were wondering how to get it to work: Put the following into a file called MPICC.pbcompspec /** Xcode Compiler Specification for MPICC */ {   Type = Compiler; Identifier = com.apple.compilers.mpicc; BasedOn =...
Jan 11th
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[Repost from old blog] Making xCode Behave like...
So I do a lot of java development, but for my project work I am looking to do a whole whack of C and possibly Objective-C. So this means xCode and I must become friends. My problem with this is I really like the eclipse text shortcuts for deleting / moving / duplicating lines. Also I am just used to control + space for my auto complete, and option + shift + r for refactoring. Having encountered...
Jan 11th
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Paul convinced me to give it a look
So far it looks pretty neat, I’ll play with it for a bit and then maybe move my blog over here. Mostly it seems like a stripped down version of word press but with more ajax and so forth. If so I’ll have to figure out how to bring in the few posts I had that were of any merit on blog.joegaudet.com. .joe
Jan 11th