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These days, it seems like Python is the darling of high-level programming. People build MMOG servers with it, big companies build web app frameworks with it and start research projects to make it go faster, popular webcomic writers extol its virtues, major Linux distributions include it in their base package set, and its geek-tacular Monty Python references charm the pants [...]

Apr 30th, 2009 | Filed under Uncategorized

I recently had the misfortune of visiting a site whose owner really wanted to help me. Specifically, the site in question had some clever server-side scripting in place: If you came to any page of the site through a Google search result, all instances of the words you used in your search would be highlighted. [...]

Apr 29th, 2009 | Filed under Uncategorized

Click here to play Vectrocity, or read on for more information. Vectrocity is a vector-styled Flash game I created as a final project for a digital media course in my freshman year at RIT. It follows the standard “shoot-em-up” formula: Blast the waves of enemies coming at you, collect powerups, and try not to die. What more could you [...]

Apr 25th, 2009 | Filed under Uncategorized

Relay Tracker is an AutoIt3 application I created in my senior year of high school. It was made for one specific purpose: To computerize all the manual data entry involved in running the school’s annual 24-Hour Relay Challenge (a community fund-raising event that is pretty much exactly what it sounds like). For some reason, I still dive back into the [...]

Apr 25th, 2009 | Filed under Uncategorized

I recall telling myself about a month ago that I would have this web site completely set up, with the first post written, by April 1st. I am apparently very good at deluding myself. Nevertheless, after no small amount of head-scratching over WordPress’s unfamiliar ways of doing things, we’ve finally arrived at that most essential [...]

Apr 22nd, 2009 | Filed under Uncategorized