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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By barneyb on June 28, 2007
Joe Rinehart says that the codpiece is coming back. A huge proponent of genital decoration/protection, he managed to create a custom codpiece from his CFUNITED nametag. Truly an ingenious man. Next year we expect to see him sporting an authentic period 'piece.
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By barneyb on June 20, 2007
Saw this on The Daily WTF / Worse Than Failure: Crashing Las Vegas. Good ol' Windows.
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