September 2008
1 post
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Patent annoyances
Reading over at BoS I saw something rather near and dear to my heart, discussion on the mp3 patents, as I had been looking into writing a player app of some sort (the player was secondary to some UI concerns I was considering, but it was music related) but had put it off. However now I don’t think it’s worth the bother, considering some time this year the mp3 licensing changed to be a...
August 2008
1 post
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Long time no post
With my day job being so hectic I haven’t had much time for intellectually stimulating programming (vb6 = not stimulating, at all). However I recently picked up a copy of PAIP (Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp) thanks to a 40% off coupon with Borders (40% off? Um, yeah going for the EXPENSIVE books).
While I’m not necessarily sure I want...
May 2008
2 posts
Interesting site
Hm, saw this on HN recently and I have to say I found it rather interesting. When I have more time I intend to take a look at it more fully. http://videolectures.net/
Language musings
I got an idea for a project I want to work on, and have started speccing it out. However I’ve realized something. No particular set of development tools gives me quite what I want, at least not ones I can think of in a price range I’m willing to spend right now. C++? Too many potholes and not that fond of the UI development with it, from past experience. Python? Server portion at...
April 2008
3 posts
Downsides of working with Open Source Lisps in...
Figured out a project I wanted to work on in Lisp, so I thought I would set up asdf-install to allow me to grab various packages like cl-ppcre and s-xml (since cl-xml doesn’t work in sbcl I guess) and kept running into various errors, and now I’m going to settle in for the night and get away from coding for the rest of the night I think. Bleh not as productive as I wanted, but this...
Runevault redirect.
Since I haven’t gotten around to putting runevault.com to proper use yet, going to point it here until I get around to using it for something more, aka when I have some more interesting site to put up. Be interesting to see how much traffic is driven here by it, considering there are several google hits referencing the domain, and someone offered to buy it off me at one point (assumably the...
Programming blog
I figure I can use this as an experiment in tracking what I do learning new programming stuff in my free time. For anyone who finds this and cares, I’m currently working on Common Lisp, using primarily SBCL in Vista (yes I’m a masochist, but once SBCL support improves a bit with stuff like threads, it really seems the best of the CL implementations so it appeals to me more then going...