As is the case with many geek-endeavors, the things I’m currently working on have nothing to do with the goal I set out to achieve. At the moment I’m trying to find a way to convert xhtml into muse markup.
Why? Because your average Java programmer Just Doesn’t Get It when it comes to building […]
I’ve wanted to use emacs as a blogging tool for a long time, but I’ve always run into issues. Today I ran across a blog post that describes an approach that works:
http://ektich.wordpress.com/2006/01/30/how-to-blog-from-emacs/
In addition to the instructions there, I had to pull down:
elib (with apt) xml.el (from: http://www.astro.princeton.edu/~rhl/skyserver/xml.el)
Ping me with questions — more details soon to come as […]
The .NET collections continually frustrate me with the obvious ommisions, even in .NET 2.0. Coming from a Java / Lisp background, I really expect two things out of a data structures API:
Lots of collections to choose from.
and; Easy manipulation of the structures you have available.
.NET doesn’t […]
I ran across Deepest Sender, a firefox extension used for posting to a blog, today and thought I’d give it a shot. It supports a small, but reasonable set of blog apps (Wordpress, LJ, … two or three others that escape me at the moment, and I can’t find the list right now..) […]
I finally found a way to quickly navigate to my home directory in windows today. Being a long-time (well, 8-10 years) Linux user, when I started working in windows 40 hours a week, I had to adapt a bit, but most of that adaptation meant installing cygwin utilities, bblean, and emacs. Unfortunately, it’s […]
I’ve been adapting to Java 1.5 and c# (and c#, with .NET 2.0), all of which feature a new construct: the foreach loop. The syntax is relatively similar to the construct in numerous other languages, such as perl’s:
foreach $var (@list){ # … }
In c# (or java, the syntax is the same), to […]
My background in software development was built up on a strong belief that software should be freely available. This belief led me to start using GNU/Linux and various GPL’d projects as an undergrad at Oregon State University. Changing from the norm was painful - I had previously been on a window-only operating system […]
Copying an idea seen on Join-The-Dots:
Portland, OR
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Jackson Hole, WY
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In the post on mapping the intern, I briefly discussed how having a map of interns across the US would be a cool thing. However, there are obviously some privacy concerns with that. In the comments, Tessa mentions using instant messengers as a conduit for personal info. The appearance of Google Talk completed the connection, […]
For the last two summers I have been interning for IBM in Westchester county, NY. While here, I’ve met a very wide distribution of interesting people (distributed across many axes, one of which is geographic — well, perhaps two of them ;). I think the community that we have formed is interesting for a number […]