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Update the talk for this is now viewable on YouTube here When I first came across Django I was an immediate fan. It featured: Good documentation Steady but stable progress Community around apps which encouraged DRY I’ve been a user off and on depending on my needs for nearly four years since discovering it, and throughout that time all of the above have remained true. However, as I’ve worked on and encountered more complex applic....
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Update the talk for this is now viewable on YouTube here When I first came across Django I was an immediate fan. It featured: Good documentation Steady but stable progress Community around apps which encouraged DRY I’ve been a user off and on depending on my needs for nearly four years since discovering it, and throughout that time all of the above have remained true. However, as I’ve worked on and encountered more complex applic....
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I really dislike Django’s ORM. For my job I have written (and continue to maintain) a large internal project that uses Django’s ORM, templating language and MVC framework to serve requests, and I made the unfortunate mistake of sticking with Django’s ORM instead of using the much more powerful SQLAl...
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I really dislike Django’s ORM. For my job I have written (and continue to maintain) a large internal project that uses Django’s ORM, templating language and MVC framework to serve requests, and I made the unfortunate mistake of sticking with Django’s ORM instead of using the much more powerful SQLAl...
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There was a question in the twitter-sphere about whether using sequences (sequence.NEXTVAL) in your select query’s projection list would somehow disable smart scans happening? The answer is no, sequence use with smart scans works just fine. The smart scan offloading applies to data retrieval row sources (and filtering) only and nothing else. So, what you have in the query’s projection list (the sequence use for example), does not direct..
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There was a question in the twitter-sphere about whether using sequences (sequence.NEXTVAL) in your select query’s projection list would somehow disable smart scans happening? The answer is no, sequence use with smart scans works just fine. The smart scan offloading applies to data retrieval row sources (and filtering) only and nothing else. So, what you have in the query’s projection list (the sequence use for example), does not direct..
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Happy to announce that the searchco.de code index is growing nicely. Even as you read this blog (assuming anyone does read it) thousands of new files are being added to the index. I suspect in time the code index will be one of the larger ones on the web. At last count it was well over 2 billion lines of code but I suspect this has grown quite a lot.
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UPDATE, Tue Apr 17: I followed the advice of an EB rep on the EB Games Facebook page and called the store to check on my CE key today, which still has not arrived. Then I called the EB Games CSR line (13 39 30) as the rep suggested. They sent my key out to me via email straight away. I registered it on the GW2 site using my old GW1 account. Quick and painless :) Now I just hope they did indeed give me a CE and not standard or DD key as the....
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Just a quick blog post to point out that some speed improvements have been implemented. I have a few more tricks to roll out soon but on the whole things are much more snappy now. I have also been modifying my indexers and can now update the index ad-hoc rather then in large batches. I have some more stuff coming soon including search restricted to languages EG Java / C++ and an updated code view.
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My universities student network is pretty restricted. I just finished coding a few changes to Simple and realised I couldn’t push any changes to GitHub due to port restrictions. It appears that they block almost all ports bar 80 and 445 via TCP, which is fine for most users but is quite annoying for...
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My universities student network is pretty restricted. I just finished coding a few changes to Simple and realised I couldn’t push any changes to GitHub due to port restrictions. It appears that they block almost all ports bar 80 and 445 via TCP, which is fine for most users but is quite annoying for...
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In the last weeks we got pretty excited about the idea of using timed comments to create and script rich media experiences. Imagine being able to trigger all kinds of visualizations & interactions for a timed comment while playing a track. Timed Comments with Media
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In the last weeks we got pretty excited about the idea of using timed comments to create and script rich media experiences. Imagine being able to trigger all kinds of visualizations & interactions for a timed comment while playing a track. Timed Comments with Media
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I recently got a note from an actionHero user asking about the difference between tasks and actions within the framework. Here’s a bit of a…
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Discover how NSURLCache in iOS 5 now automatically implements disk caching to a SQLite database based on Cache-Control headers.
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My generation grew up during the rise of the internet right? Time and time again I witness some of the most pathetic excuses listening to why people lost their email account. The internet is powerful, but also very dangerous. I'll just list a few things I noticed that
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Last week we announced a new integration with Ableton Live 8, that lets you easily share your sounds from within Ableton Live to SoundCloud. Today we’re making the technology behind that integration available to everyone through our new Desktop Sharing Kits. Mac Desktop Sharing Kit
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Last week we announced a new integration with Ableton Live 8, that lets you easily share your sounds from within Ableton Live to SoundCloud. Today we’re making the technology behind that integration available to everyone through our new Desktop Sharing Kits. Mac Desktop Sharing Kit
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I haven’t posted many any updates over the Easter break because I’ve been busy ripping my hair out with Box2D.
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At the start of this year I made some New Years Resolutions. I thought I’d review how I was going after 3 months. Weight – Unchanged. Doing a bit of work here but obviously not enough, at least it is not going up. Driver License – Not started yet Chess – Done a lot of … Continue reading New Year’s Resolutions – 3 month progress report
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Main Theorem: There exist optimal stackings for standard two-player Texas Hold ‘Em. A Puzzle is Solved (and then some!) It’s been quite a while since we first formulated the idea of an optimal stacking. In the mean time, we’ve gotten distracted with graduate school, preliminary exams, and the host of other interesting projects that have been going on here at Math ∩ Programming. And so months later, after traversing the homotopic hills of to..
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Main Theorem: There exist optimal stackings for standard two-player Texas Hold ‘Em. A Puzzle is Solved (and then some!) It’s been quite a while since we first formulated the idea of an optimal stacking. In the mean time, we’ve gotten distracted with graduate school, preliminary exams, and the host of other interesting projects that have been going on here at Math ∩ Programming. And so months later, after traversing the homotopic hills of to..
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Main Theorem: There exist optimal stackings for standard two-player Texas Hold ‘Em. A Puzzle is Solved (and then some!) It’s been quite a while since we first formulated the idea of an optimal stacking. In the mean time, we’ve gotten distracted with graduate school, preliminary exams, and the host of other interesting projects that have been going on here at Math ∩ Programming. And so months later, after traversing the homotopic hills of to..
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I read an article on Ars Technica yesterday that didn’t sit too well with me: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/04/what-ever-happened-to-the-american-arcade/ Now don’t get me wrong…..I thought it was a great article, and they did a good job of portraying the difference between Japanese and North American culture when it comes to video arcades (which are still very popular in Japan but have pretty much disappeared in North America outs..
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It just occurred to me that the following might be possible, and not only is it possible, Eclipse already does it. Normally IDE auto-complete works forwards , i.e. you declare your variables, and then when you come to use them, they are suggested. But it can/does also work the other way around . You use a variable which is undefined, then place your cursor above the usage and start to declare it, and it fills in name of the variable y..
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I read an article on Ars Technica yesterday that didn’t sit too well with me: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/04/what-ever-happened-to-the-american-arcade/ Now don’t get me wrong…..I thought it was a great article, and they did a good job of portraying the difference between Japanese and North American culture when it comes to video arcades (which are still very popular in Japan but have pretty much disappeared in North America outs..
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High Res Photos from Laboratory for Autonomous Systems Research (LASR) at the Navy Research Laboratory
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kevinohashi.com
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14 years ago
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Here is a small sampling of high res photos from the Navy Research Laboratory's brand new Laboratory for Autonomous Systems Research (LASR). All Photos taken April 2, 2012. Click on a photo to see high res version. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License . read more
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High Res Photos from Laboratory for Autonomous Systems Research (LASR) at the Navy Research Laboratory
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kevinohashi.com
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14 years ago
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Here is a small sampling of high res photos from the Navy Research Laboratory's brand new Laboratory for Autonomous Systems Research (LASR). All Photos taken April 2, 2012. Click on a photo to see high res version. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License . read more
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Moving On... Or How Waiting For A Visa Was The Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me.
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steipete.me
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14 years ago
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After months of waiting for a US visa, I share my journey from freelance to full-time indie developer and the creation of PSPDFKit.
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My ex-project and I had been together for ten months. We had our fair share ups and downs, particularly in the early days, but over the last few months we had settled into a nice routine. It wasn’t particularly exciting any more but at least it was predictable. And then yesterday I was asked to lead a troubled project. It’s only six months old and already has quite a few warts, and it limped across the line into UAT last week. My first in..
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freenode will be upgrading their services very soon. One of the major new features that this upgrade will bring is the ability to identify using ssl certificates. Here's a very quick guide on how to get started.
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Learn why willChangeValueForKey and didChangeValueForKey are unnecessary when using setter methods for KVO in Objective-C.
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This post marks the reboot of my blog where I plan to share iOS development insights and personal thoughts.
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One of the SoundCloud API’s most powerful features is the timed comment. At its core it seems simple enough: a piece of text associated with a point in time for a particular track. But where you see timed opinions, I see a light-weight game scripting engine. So when Johannes Wagener told me he was adding an event to our JS SDK, I immediately began work on Wave Raid: Quest for the Timed Comment.
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One of the SoundCloud API’s most powerful features is the timed comment. At its core it seems simple enough: a piece of text associated with a point in time for a particular track. But where you see timed opinions, I see a light-weight game scripting engine. So when Johannes Wagener told me he was adding an event to our JS SDK, I immediately began work on Wave Raid: Quest for the Timed Comment.
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Hi all, Just a heads up that I’m moving my email provider, hopefully all goes well but you may see some mails bounce during the transition. Don’t panic I’m still here working away and will be back to answering support emails soon, or at least trying too - huge numbers at the moment due to the app issues.
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I’ve been thinking about different game genres and what draws people to prefer one over another. What are the distinctions that make someone enjoy one type of game more than the next? I figured I’d think about each genre separately and define what makes it fun for me and why I think people in general might be drawn to it. Originally I was going to dump an overview of thoughts on all genres in this post, but I’m finding myself mulling so muc..
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Developer Contest: SoundCloud + Acapela Group Mashup
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developers.soundcloud.com
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14 years ago
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SoundCloud is teaming up with Acapela Group for our first Developer Contest. Acapela Group offers amazing text to speech solutions and have a variety of SDKs so you can write apps that create sound files using one of their voices (including hip-hop and country!). Take a listen to some sample voices. We’re calling on our developer community to mashup SoundCloud and Acapela. Show us what you can do using a text to speech service with the best..
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Developer Contest: SoundCloud + Acapela Group Mashup
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developers.soundcloud.com
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14 years ago
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SoundCloud is teaming up with Acapela Group for our first Developer Contest. Acapela Group offers amazing text to speech solutions and have a variety of SDKs so you can write apps that create sound files using one of their voices (including hip-hop and country!). Take a listen to some sample voices. We’re calling on our developer community to mashup SoundCloud and Acapela. Show us what you can do using a text to speech service with the best..
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Whenever I am about to start integrating with a new API, I like to walk though the steps with cURL. For those of you who have been living
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I am half asleep right now, but feel like quickly writing this down today instead of tomorrow. And holy crap I just realized it’s 3:40am right now, so I guess “tomorrow” would have technically been today regardless. Anyway, today (now yesterday) was productive. I not only did a lot of work on the game itself, but also worked on documentation. Even the process of compiling a document outlining the core functions being used in the different c..
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