The best-laid plans are in my other pants
Well it’s hacking season again. With GNOME’s switch from Subversion to Git complete, which means Banshee now uses Git too, it gave me an excuse to finally learn it. This was not fun. But having toughed it out, I can definitely say that I love it. Now that Banshee is using Git, Aaron is starting…
I will be graduating in two weeks from Anderson University with a B.A. in Computer Science and Mathematics. I’m actively looking for employment in the Anderson/Muncie/Indianapolis, Indiana area. I’ve had several prospects for some months but nothing has come through yet. If you know of any opportunities, or are looking for a dedicated coder familiar…
I’ve abandoned my idea of creating an AJAX interface for the time being. It is a cool idea but I think I can do much better by writing a proper application. The Linux FICS interface scene is rather weak. eboard is about the best there is in terms of usability, and it has its share…
I’ve been getting back into chess recently, and my favorite online community is the Free Internet Chess Server (FICS). There are a wealth of free and open interfaces available for download, but they all have one thing in common: you have to download them. At my workplace this is a no-no, but over my lunch…
I’ve been reading up on Douglas Crockford’s Code Conventions for the JavaScript Programming Language and I agree with most of them, but I definitely have a bone to pick with one of them: “All variables/functions should be declared before they are used.” This sounds good in theory, and is probably a good programming practice. However,…
I’ve been up to a lot of little things recently but haven’t undertaken any projects big enough to warrant a whole fancy blog post. I figured I might as well summarize what I’ve been up to. I’m doing a project at school that improves the experience of on-campus tutors and their clients. They’d been using…
I spent some of Tuesday porting some of my older OpenVP visualizations from XML-serialized scripted effect presets to “real” preset classes, and committed them to Banshee.OpenVP. The results:
Hopefully, anyway. I spent some time this last week (probably over 15 hours total) giving the Banshee visualization pipeline another overhaul. In the process of doing this I finally filed a bug I found in the spectrum GStreamer element that I’ve been trying to work around for a long time. Even though Sebastian was able…
I got the replacement for my defective laptop display on Saturday and got around to installing it last night. So far everything looks good. There are no defective pixels as far as I can tell and, as a bonus, it’s a matte display instead of the glossy one that came with my laptop. Woot!
I stumbled across this bit of Apple awesomeness today. If you look at the huge splash image, you’ll note this text to the right of the mouse: Touch-sensitive technology detects right and left click. Oh? I’m sorry, I was under the impression that you manipulated mice with telepathy, not with touch! What a revolutionary invention!…