My co-worker, Kevin, recently filmed the pilot episode of a new reality series on “A Startup in a Week”. A team of startup guys, including Adam Loving, built a Facebook app to raise money for good causes like building a school in Cambodia.
There are 5 episodes, and some fun drama — debates over how to monetize the app, […]
Fresh from the inaugural cabal of ‘08, I wanted to do some automated processing tasks on my iTunes library. I was delighted to see how easy it is to do this using LINQ to XML.
The iTunes library XML file is a rather awkward format. The semantics are dependant on document node ordering, which is just […]
12 hours later, the repaving process is mostly complete. My Tecra M7 with Vista is running the best it has in a long time; I’m glad I did it. It’s been nearly 2 years since I paved; luckily I kept all my data on a separate drive, so I could fully format the system drive.
Here […]
So I decided to use F# (basically OCaml) instead of scheme for the pure functional version of my puzzle solver. I wish I had started with F# in the first place. What a gorgeous language! Implementing in F# showed me what I was doing wrong in the C# version, and now I can implement the […]
Listening to Rabbit in the Moon’s newest CD for the first time as I convert my puzzle solver to F#. I mentioned RITM before on this blog — they blow Underworld away. Like a combination of MBM and Underworld, but pure and powerful like F#. Takes me back to chocolate at the union and Tandyn […]