I finished watching all the video lectures for MIT 6006. It's a very good course for anyone looking for a refresher on algorithms. In honor of the final unit (Dynamic Programming) I implemented a program to determine the optimal plays for a deck of Blackjack. First feel free to play…
In late March I performed a recital to amuse myself and decided to live-stream it on the internet, also to amuse myself. The solution I came up with is available on Github so you can amuse yourself. What I learned is that many years already into HTML5 video, the landscape…
The work that Microsoft is doing on the next release of the .NET framework and specifically ASP.NET 5 are very exciting. See here for a good summary. The changes for the most part eliminate all the arguments against using .NET as the platform of choice for a web development…
Several months ago I set up Mavericks under VMware but need Yosemite now to code up a new iphone app. I did a clean install of it rather than upgrade Mavericks - which is fraught when running under vmware. To save you some time, here's everything you'll need: VMware workstation…
I'm playing a recital later this month and put together a quick site using the static site generator Jekyll. Aside from the killer performance and easy deployment and backup you get with a static site, the best part of going without a database is security. While escaping variables is always…
Mouse without borders is the best app ever created. It's a tiny little program that lets you share a single mouse and keyboard across multiple workstations over a network. It also shares clipboards and files across the connected machines. Now I have it hooked up to my desktop, my laptop…
From Programming Interviews Exposed: A phone has up to four possible letters for each digit. Write a program to print out all possible words (not necessarily dictionary words). Do it recursively and iteratively. In Python: …