Category Archives: Techy

Programming! Also Linux, web design, hardware… But mostly programming.

the pain of Facebook application development

Published: 2 February 2010
For the past few days, I’ve been trying to create a Facebook application for interacting with Github. I hoped to spend my time mainly on the Github portion, figuring out how to post wall posts on Facebook about recent Github activity, etc. However, I’ve instead argued with the various Facebook APIs. I [...]
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two new programming projects

Published: 30 January 2010
I’ve gone on a programming project binge today, coding first in C# on a project to add an enforceable Implements attribute to class members, then in PHP to write a Github application for Facebook. I’m interested in co-developing the Facebook app, too, and have emailed a few of my programmer friends at UK to [...]
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TurboTax fail

Published: 28 December 2009
I received in the mail the other day a TurboTax install CD with an offer for free filing of federal and state tax returns. Neat, I thought, and I was initially under the impression that they were giving me TurboTax for free. Nope, turns out I still have to pay $60 for it, [...]
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heap sort in ML

Published: 23 December 2009
This past semester for my programming languages class, we had to implement heap sort in Standard ML. This is my implementation, which I release under the GNU General Public License v3. I split the code into two separate files: shared.ml and heap_sort.ml, where shared.ml contains functions that might be of use with [...]
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inflexible Adobe

Published: 8 December 2009
Wow, Adobe doesn’t make things convenient for you. I just called about their $199 offer for Photoshop CS4 for students, hoping that I could use it on my Mac or in Windows and perhaps be restricted to using only one at a time, but no. I can download it for Mac or Windows, [...]
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Sims 3 World Adventures arrived

Published: 17 November 2009
Whoo, The Sims 3: World Adventures arrived today! I had preordered it on EA’s site but was dubious about it 1) arriving the day it was released (i.e. today) and 2) actually being left on my doorstep/mailbox versus being stashed in some package center for me to go and pick up with my [...]
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PC hard drive dying

Published: 8 November 2009
I don’t know if I blogged about it, but I certainly complained on Twitter about my Macbook hard drive eating itself at the beginning of the semester. Well, just this morning my Windows hard drive in my PC started acting up. When I booted the computer, I got a “DISK READ ERROR INSERT [...]
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the wily C# shuffle

Published: 7 November 2009
My programming languages professor is quite the wily one. For our last programming assignment in there, we’re to write a fraction class in both Java and Smalltalk, as part of our coverage of object-oriented languages. I asked if I could do C# and Smalltalk, since I really like C# and, darn it, everyone [...]
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RAM installed

Published: 21 October 2009
Whoo, got my 2GB of RAM yesterday and got it installed. Now to enjoy my 4GB RAM (3GB usable–thanks Windows 7 32-bit) to play The Sims 3. Also, having your apartment building’s roof replaced sucks. I think they’re dancing up there.
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stupid Adobe pop-up

Published: 13 October 2009
Adobe Reader, I heart your verbosity:
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