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You know this blog is top-quality when I start posting random conglomerations of stuff that I ran into during the week as an excuse for not writing actual full-length blog posts. Let the quality commence! First, in local news, CSH alumnus and jQuery inventor John Resig gave a talk at RIT on Friday about new features [...]
There is a tendency to look back on the media of one’s childhood through rose-colored glasses. That one videogame you thought was an incredibly challenging but rewarding masterpiece? Turns out it was just a third-rate clone of a Nintendo Hard platformer with more game-breaking glitches than you could shake a joystick at. That one TV show you watched [...]
I had a post half-written for today, but decided it wasn’t going anywhere interesting and scrapped it. I still wanted to post something, so in the spirit of half-finished things, here’s a nice Ruby one-liner from a half-finished project of mine: gets.chomp.strip.scan(/[^ "]+|”[^"]+”/).map{ |s| s.delete(‘”‘) } This takes a line from standard input and splits [...]
After an exhausting 7-to-5 day preceded by less than two hours of sleep, the second annual RIT innovation fair-stival is done. Unfortunately I didn’t get to see most of the exciting stuff because I spent the day hanging around Twittjr with a bunch of other CSHers (and occasionally taking joyrides in our new motorized shopping cart). The downside [...]
Recently I’ve been getting my new project, “Twittjr” (a mashup of Twitter and an IBM PCjr), ready to attract people to the CSH booth at GCCIS for ImagineRIT. Coding in Cartridge BASIC on a PCjr is simultaneously a fascinating and frustrating experience. On the one hand, it’s kind of annoying to not have any modern conveniences like, say, functions. But [...]