I’m going to New Jersey for the first time for work, and I’ll be up there about two and a half weeks. I was asked last week if I’d come along to help with the requirements gathering process for a … Continue reading
I ordered one of the new MacBook Airs last night, and I’m super excited about it coming next week. I’m typing this entry on my old 2007 MacBook, which I bought used from a friend. All my Macs I’ve had … Continue reading
Working with matrices and vectors in Ruby before has been annoying because methods I expected to find were not there, and there wasn’t much documentation. Here, I present some simple additions to the Matrix and Vector classes that I found … Continue reading
I’ve been reading Outlander by Diana Gabaldon recently, thanks to Carly’s recommendation. I started out skeptical of it, especially because the main character, Claire, was a generic everywoman except for being sexually irresistible and a bit stubborn. That combination still … Continue reading
I’m concerned about one of my classmates in my distributed systems class. We were given an assignment today dealing with concurrency and synchronization. It involves writing a simple flat-file database and solving the readers-writers problem across multiple programs for reading … Continue reading