Author: sdowney

This weekend’s tech project was getting an old Sun Ultra 5 up and running with a new version of Solaris, in this case Solaris Nevada b33, so I can play with toys like opensolaris, dtrace, zfs,etc. This particular machine doesn’t have a cdrom, so in order to get things working I had to do a…

Epsilon-Delta: Mathematics and Computer Programming » Number Sequence Puzzles are Arbitrary

Brewer: Steve Downey – Beer: February Ale Style: American Amber Ale Type: All grain Size: 5.5 gallons Color: 13 HCU (~9 SRM) Bitterness: 38 IBU OG: 1.052 FG: (Est) 1.012 Alcohol: 5.2% v/v (4.1% w/w) (Estimated) Grain: 2 lb. Weyermann Dark Wheat10 lb. Weyermann Vienna1 lb. Weyermann Cara Amber Mash: 60% efficiency Boil: 60 minutes…

Bill de hÓra: I think I figured out the list comprehensions thing… I’ve been trying to understand this stuff myself, and Bill de hÓra’s post has prodded me to write this down so I won’t forget it again. List comprehensions are really just syntatic sugar. And too much syntatic sugar can cause truth decay. List…

This is me at the end of the day, playing with Blogger’s new mobile posting feature, and my new cell phone camera.

OktAle / Novemberfest I finished up the keg this week. That was pretty fast, for me. I usually end up with a few stray bottles of a brew hanging on forever. But, since the keg is really all or nothing, I just finished it up. The only down side is that I don’t have another…

Waterfall 2006 – International Conference on Sequential Development Just what we need. A solid return to the successful development practices of the early 80’s. The Waterfall development model, with emphasis on design up front, deliberate handoff between phases, a separate QA team, and producing extensive documentation at all times, is ripe for a comeback.

template metaprogramming – Google Search goddamnit – there ought to be more people who know more about template metaprogramming than I do by now. And Todd Veldhuizen was someone I cribbed notes from when I wrote that article. The Boost MPL stuff is excellent. Why aren’t there another dozen links talking about it?

Google Mobile – Personalized Home Way cool. More neat stuff on my mobile phone.

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