Vim is very customizable, it has thousands of plugins suitable for everyone’s needs. Each of us uses some of them. Furthermore, it has a good number of files you can use to configure some aspects of the editor and it would be very nice to keep all this stuff under a version contr … | Continue reading
As usual, my considerations grouped by chapter: Creating our own renderer # Very interesting way of starting a book. The author presents a gem used throughout the book called enginex. | Continue reading
I had far too much to say about Terra Nova to fit into 140 characters, so I’ve resurrected this blog for a one-off TV review. It’s fair to say that I like dinosaurs. I like the BBC’s Walking With… series, I like all three of the Jurassic Park films (yes, even the third one – … … … | Continue reading
I’ll be presenting “Asynchronous Job Execution in the Cloud” (Session ID: 24301) later this week at JavaOne in San Francisco. The session will be held in the Hotel Nikko (Carmel I/II) on Wednesday Oct. 5, at 1pm. I will cover how deployment topologies requires us to rethink how w … | Continue reading
Can a scientist really enjoy the beauty of a flower? Here is what Mr. Feynman had to say about science and the appreciation of nature. "I have a friend who's an artist and he's some times taken a view which I don't agree with very well. He'll hold up a flower and say, 'look how b … | Continue reading
Can a scientist really enjoy the beauty of a flower? Here is what Mr. Feynman had to say about science and the appreciation of nature. ”I have a friend who’s an artist and he’s some times taken a view which I don’t agree with very well. He’ll hold up a flower and say, ‘look how b … | Continue reading
Last night I signed up for Clicky Web Analytics, and looking around their site I saw that they offer market share stats for the major browsers (IE, Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Opera,) both in general, and split by browser version. Looking at Chrome’s stats, I noticed something i … | Continue reading
Now that Piictu finally launched and is out of beta, I want to write a bit about one of my favorite things I worked on as the front-end web developer there, which is our implementation of an infinite scrolling page improved by the use of the HTML5 History API, the problem it trie … | Continue reading
These photos seem to be all over the internet, but the story is not. In 2010, French customs officers at the Rochambeau airport in Cayenne, French Guiana after noticing some suspicious bulges, conducted an intimate pat-down of a Dutch tourist and found some tiny parcels in some v … | Continue reading
After almost four years on Tumblr, I’ve decided it’s time to switch blog platforms. My blog now runs on Octopress and Heroku. The reason I’m switching, and the reason I was using Tumblr in the first place, are a bit of a long story. I used to have a real blog, one I built myself … | Continue reading
I'm happy to announce that my iPad music learning startup Etude has been acquired by Steinway & Sons. When they approached me about the idea of working together, it seemed like an odd idea. What would a piano company in New York want with an iPad app? It's not the usual acquisiti … | Continue reading
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In the previous account of poultry in space, I related the story of how chicken embryos were launched aboard Discovery STS-29, but I did not make it to the story of birds (ex ova) in space. Despite claims to the contrary, someone did indeed try to launch birds into space, and the … | Continue reading