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Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
New Diggs and a New Phone!
So as some people may know, I used to own a Motorola e815 as my cell phone. Easily the best phone I’ve ever had – not because of the features, but because of how much of how hackable the phone was. Basically any services that Verizon disabled, you could re-enable by modifying the [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Gadgets by Aaron
Monday, August 25th, 2008
MacBook Country – Part 2
So in my previous post I’ve outlined some of the better features that go along with converting over to OS X; specifically on a MacBook Pro. As opposed to making one giant post I’ve decided to split it up into 3 posts, the good, the bad, and the ugly. Whether or not I will actually [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Gadgets, Rant by Aaron
Friday, August 1st, 2008
MacBook Country – Part 1
Let me preface this by saying that this post is about 1.5-3 months old. I figured I should finally get this draft out there (by splitting this topic up into 3 chunks) so I am able to get on with the “Bad” and the “Ugly” sections. Without further ado! The good!
At work my 2-2.5 year [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Gadgets by Aaron
Saturday, June 21st, 2008
Software Development Meme
So since one of my co-workers called me out, I’ll be answering a few questions about my history and experiences in programming. I’d appreciate it if my call outs do the same!
How old were you when you started programming?
Obviously way back when I was wrigint .bat scripts for MS-DOS when I had my first computer. [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Programming, Random by Aaron
Monday, May 5th, 2008
AOL CDN FTW
So lately I’ve started undergoing (yet another) personal project. Basically a file request and upload system that will be using the Dojo Grid. Initially I was going to try using a few other widgets from the Dojo family, but decided that it was time to revisit the Grid and see how much it [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in Dojo, Web by Aaron
Sunday, February 10th, 2008
Welcome to Planningville – Population++
Inspired by a recent comment on my last blog, I’ve taken David up on the webpage wireframe and prototype tutorials he found. Both of the articles seem to be geared towards actual graphic designers or user interface designers that have very little or limited knowledge of javascript; and almost no knowledge of the server [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Python, Web by Aaron
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
All hail the user
Contrary to popular belief, “the user” is not an all-powerful being that exists only to play games against sprites. But the truth is out there… somewhere…
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Awesome 90’s cartoons aside, there are things that we can learn from the user! The past few weeks I’ve been re-desiging a lot of the web user interfaces [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Web, Work by Aaron
Saturday, January 5th, 2008
Nokia n800 python posting!
So recently I’e made the purchase of a Nokia n800. A few of my friends recommended it and I can safely say that (so far) it’s a great purchase. Video chat, ssh, vnc, email, etc. Most people seem to have trouble classifying the device; fot me its’s basically a laptop replacement when I don’t feel [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Gadgets, Python by Aaron
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
Problem 10 – More prime numbers
So a big part of all this Project Euler nonsense includes prime numbers. Problem 10, begs the ever-so-common question Find the sum of all the primes below one million. Obviously, the first attempt would be to just straight out calculate it using my previous program in Problem 3. Adapting that program to [...]
7 Comments » - Posted in ProjectEuler, Python by Aaron
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008
Project Euler
So as many already probably know Euler was a famous European mathematician and physicist. Recently at work a lot of talk has been going around about Project Euler; basically a website which poses mathematical problems that need to be solved by writing program. So a few of us at work have decided to take [...]