I have been mucking around (in a good way) with the site a lot lately. In the process, I managed to do some Jean Claude Van Damage to the general workingness of this site. Here come the excuses. </p> <p> First off, I've been experiencing some strange...
Sorry, I just couldn't resist posting this. Please forgive me. Please.
The junk mail made me do it. </p>
I have had to deal with some very annoying things these last few days. As usual, when problems are out of my control, they are extra stressful to deal with. While it felt like a waste of time, I think it was all a useful learning experience. </p...
I did a lot this weekend to protect the user from doing damage to my application. For example, while performing a measurement, it's usually not a good idea to muck around in the preferences and change the length of the MLS sequence. That length value...
It's been about 4 days, and I feel as if I'm getting worse. There is a visit scheduled to see the doctor tonight, so I should be better soon. I was still able to get some work done during the weekend, though. More in a bit. </p> <p> Also, you may...
While we're experiencing the best weather we've had here in Waterloo compared to the past few months, I managed to pick up some sort sickness. I'm not good on identifying sicknesses myself, so I just lump everything together as "I'm sick". Unfortunately...
I often hear about how important it is to run daily builds. Since I have my source tree in a state where I can check out a clean copy and build it, I decided to turn that process into an automated script. I created a cron job (Oh how I love the UNIX...
Picture this scene: You get home from work, eat dinner, and sit down at your machine. At best, you have an hour to spend working on your part-time software endeavor. </p> <p> What do you do? </p> <p> Here's my answer: I fix bugs. More specifically...