Neat and Interesting
Ruby Prime Generation
For a possible job in the Seattle area, one of my prospective employers is having me submit some solutions to problems found on Project Euler. While working on a particular issue, I’ve discovered that the method I’ve used for calculating the list of prime numbers performs better than the stock Prime class that is provided [...]
Tags: 50 lines of code, algorithm, code, euler, math, number, prime, prime number, project euler, questions, ruby
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Thoughts from Madrailers
First off, yes, I know I haven’t put anything up here in six months. That’s my mistake. I’ll try to do better in the future. Honestly, I just haven’t felt like writing in that time period. Until today. Well, technically yesterday night. Whatever. Yesterday, I had the wonderful experience of meeting a fantastic group of [...]
Tags: Cucumber, development, Haml, hope, interest, javascript, lightning talks, Madison, Madrailers, meetup, ruby, Ruby on Rails, RVM, testing
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50 Lines of Code, Day 1: Live Wallpaper
My first 50 Lines of Code entry, is the beginnings to an Android 2.1+ Live Wallpaper. Called Paint, the idea is to have four main colors at the edge of the screens. By the phone’s tilt, those colors will bleed into the screen itself, causing the animation, and interactivity with the phone regardless of whether [...]
Tags: 50loc, Android, code, Gist, github, Live Wallpaper, LWP
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Exploring the Droid
Recently I’ve been having a lot of fun playing with my new phone. The previous statement isn’t much of a surprise in this day in age, but I think I should qualify what I mean. I’ve been having a lot of fun playing with the software internals of my new phone.
Tags: Custom Kernel, development, droid, Droids, Environment, Forums, Fun Software, Hot Swap, Internals, Motorola, phone, Roms, Surprise, Verizon
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Code Quality Measurement
Found on http://www.makinggoodsoftware.com/
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Why Apple Chose iPad
As everyone is quite aware, Apple’s release of their tablet, now known as the iPad, was announced yesterday. With their own System-on-a-chip processor, near-10″ screen, and storage sizes ranging from 16-64 GiB, these pieces of technology are impressive at their price point, even for a non-macHead. However, the overwhelming response to the announcement yesterday was [...]
Tags: Apple, Followers, human stupidity, Ipad, Ipads, iTampon, Joke, Jokes, Madtv, Publicity, Sketch, trending topics, tt, twitter, Wsj
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