Greasemonkey. GnuPG. Gmail. Does this sound like a winning combination to anyone else? Would it be infringing or just a pun to call it eniGmail? [edit] The more I think about it, the more it seems like 1) this would need to be an extension in its own right, and 2) it would be a [...]
Regarding primebrute.py: I started running it last night immediately after finishing it, something a bit less than 24 hours ago. It worked its way through the prime numbers < 10,000 in less than a minute, but right now it’s still computing numbers less than 600,000 (at this moment, it just determined that 598,229 is prime). [...]
Lest you think that computers are powerful enough these days to churn through any inefficient algorithm in some reasonable amount of time… my first python program: #primebrute.py — for when you want to know some silly things about prime numbers, and don't know how long it takes def maxv(lst=[]): curmax = lst[0] for i in [...]
Today, I coded for 13 hours. I put down 191 k of code; approximately 32000 words, or a short novel. I’m not going to lie; I’m working in Java, so much of it can be auto-generated from UML diagrams. However, due to the horribleness of the UML editor that I have to use, it all [...]
I just had an epiphany of sorts; a vision of how to turn web page design into an exercise in object-oriented plug and play. I can keep the whole system in my head for a few seconds at a time… The basic reason for this is that well-designed sites end up having a lot of [...]
Java isn’t a bad language, really. It’s got a lot of positive things going for it, and when things work right, they come together quite easily. It’s just that it’s so incredibly picky. Say that, for some reason, you want to include a GUI checkbox in a program. You can drop one in with no [...]
Where have I been the last few days? Well, I’ve been working on two projects: One for the AI class, and another mostly to get it done. Over the last three days, I’ve spent (with my project partner) a total of about 55 man-hours working on the AI project. Last night I was dreaming about [...]
Ok, the test program I wrote now works beautifully, as well as providing a bit of an introduction for me into Perl regular expressions. Also, I got down to business and wrote the program specification, detailing in English exactly what the program will do. At this point, all that’s left is to do is a [...]
I recently had the opportunity to program with an old friend of mine, as he had an idea, simple in concept, that he was interested in working on. We used Visual Basic, as only programs as a hobby and never bothered to use any other languages. I haven’t had occasion to use VB for several [...]
It’s funny, because the moment you add the graphical element to a program, its size grows ridiculously. It was true when I was programming them out of hand-drawn ascii art with QBasic, it was true when I was still using QBasic to create simple 320×240 graphics, it was true later with Visual Basic, and it’s [...]