The More You Know

MIT has an awesome open (e.g. free) set of courses online. Some of these courses include videos of actual course teachings! This is simply amazing and I’ve spend the last few days listening to as many lectures as I can, even if I think I know the material.

The only issue is that the videos are in Real Video format (RV40/44) denoted by the file extension *.rm. The only known way to watch these types of videos to most people is by using Real Player. Since no one actually wants to use/install Real Player what are our choices?

The solution for Linux … Continue Reading

This post is mainly so I don’t ever lose this information and I have it in a safe place that I can get to from anywhere. Bit manipulation makes me feel like some kind of wizard in a tower when I use it. It conjures images of me as an old man with a giant white bear and crinkly little eyes pouring over giant arcane books of information.

In truth most programmers know that bit manipulation more akin to a peasant flipping some switches. Even so, having those switches flipped at the right moment sure is useful. This was taken orginally … Continue Reading

I had a conversation with Joe one morning while responding to an article that I found via Reddit.com via instant messenger. I was showing him my response to the article to see what he thought of my response. As always I made a spelling/grammar error and Joe helped by pointing it out.

Andrew Martinez: The article points out a good topic of conversation, but it does short-side a larger topic at hand (How to get a development job). I say take the article for what its worth and give the author a little slack for stepping on toes … Continue Reading