Not magic, just a different kind of science.
I am as Prometheus to you mere mavening mortals (except for how he was chained to a rock for all eternity while birds repeatedly ate his internal organs)! I have stolen fire from mighty Zeus and I now share it with you. Wear your flame retardant pants, ye knave--for we enter the wild world of […]
MoreNSSet and her sexy daughter, NSMutableSet are officially my two favorite Cocoa classes. They have reached previously unmeasured levels of exquisitude. Sure, they have their faults, like being finite (I was hoping to prove the continuum hypothesis with NSSet--that's a math joke), but what they lack in nonsensical mathematical jargon, they make up for in usefulitude. Enter Javascript. […]
MoreYears ago when I programmed networking applications in Perl, I decided I had mastered regular expressions. I hadn't, of course, but when your code looks like you accidentally opened up a .dll in notepad, you have to believe in something. Anyway, I wrote something called a vector space search engine (a topic I will probably […]
MoreThe web is, to put it mildly, a fierce and fickle mistress. As a development platform, it's like trying to ride a horse-sized stick of margarine and your reins are made of light-sabers. Seriously, I'm talking to you Mozilla, Opera, Google, and whoever shoveled IE together--quit "innovating" (I guess some people use Safari too, and that's […]
MoreMy fascination with the game Scorched Earth knows no bounds. One might say I am the Mother of All Scorched Earth Fans. One of my earliest fascinations with the game (keep in mind, I was like 10) was that I could play for hours and hours and never play the same level twice. The ground […]
MoreMaven is certainly a creature of *inner* beauty. You should not under any circumstances look directly at her. I am unsure how her creators can tinker under her voluminous skirt and come out alive. Unfortunately I looked into her eyes. I made a promise to Maven--but I broke my word. Now she need Closure. Setting […]
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