By barneyb on August 16, 2010
So tonight I built cron in CFML. Again. Because it's missing from both the language framework and every runtime. Am I the only one who constantly fights this battle? In the past four years I've built four distinct cron implementations in CFML and it's completely retarded.
The JRE provides TimerTask, but it's a [...]
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By barneyb on March 22, 2009
Saw this on pictureisunrelated.com and had to share:
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By barneyb on December 13, 2008
As a musician, is it strictly necessary to blaze through every piece of music you play? Listening to Christmas music on Pandora and probably 2/3rds of tunes, particularly non-orchestral pieces, are at about 125% the speed they should be played. It doesn't make you a better player just because you can flail your fingers and/or [...]
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By barneyb on June 16, 2008
Here I am just out of the shower, sitting on the back patio with bare feet and a t-shirt, sunset behind the trees, listening to the babbling fountain and some Leaves Eyes', and finishing up a bag of Mother's Circus Animal cookies. If only I had a fruity drink with a little umbrella in it…
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By barneyb on June 16, 2008
Tomorrow morning I hop on a plane to CFUNITED in Washington DC. Four days of learning, chatting, getting far too little sleep, and generally being a programmer geek 24 hours a day. Even better, Joshua and Koen (two coworkers) are coming as well. It's been a hellish past few weeks at Mentor, and getting a [...]
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By barneyb on May 11, 2008
I've just added a simple projects page for the projects that I blog about here. There you should be able to find a comprehensive list of projects and their updates from my blog. It's a one-stop shop for the stuff I write. I've often considered the best solution for managing all that, and decided simplest [...]
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By barneyb on November 9, 2007
I believe I've blogged about Excalibur (an RPN calculator for Win32) before, but I just discovered the wide array of constants that it has built in:
While I can't say that I use many of those numbers in my daily calculations (which are usually either pixels or dollars), the last one is definitely useful.
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By barneyb on August 29, 2007
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By barneyb on July 26, 2007
After a day of using my new Edge, a couple thoughts:
As expected, the distance/speed measurements are slightly low, because it assumes traveling in a straight line between checkpoints, so you lose a little bit of distance going around corners. Compared with my "normal" computer that uses a wheel sensor, the error is about 1.5%, though [...]
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By barneyb on July 6, 2007
The guys a Google have come through again. Google Maps now lets you drag driving directions around to add custom waypoints on the route, without having to manually enter their address or lat/long. Aside from being really neat to play with, it lets you easily map a custom route (say, for my morning commute) without [...]
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