in deep thought

Javascript Session Variables

Tue, 13 May 2008 09:01:44 UTC

Using session variables instead of cookies?! Awesome.

New Host

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 06:33:31 UTC

I've moved the site over to a new host. LFC Hosting. I've been using them a while for other stuff and have been happy with them. There will be a few issues here and there, but I'll get the kinks worked out soon.

The Impact of Human CO2

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 03:52:25 UTC

How do we know that recent CO2 increases are due to human activities?

Introducing neSpeeches

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 06:03:14 UTC

A while ago I talked about a possible project I wanted to try based on a site I saw some years ago. And so here it is.

It is a speech profiler which at the moment allows someone to get word counts, sentence counts, and see visually sentence density. In addition, one can search for certain words and phrases to see occurrence density within that visual representation. Finally, one can compare those numbers and visual representations between multiple speeches.

I plan to at some point add some additional statistic features such as unique word counts, comparisons, and other things as I think of them or get suggestions.

Learn 2 Java 1

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 07:15:44 UTC

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Learn 2 CSharp 1

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 07:13:28 UTC

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading;

namespace learn2CSharp1
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            for (int i = 0; ; i++)
            {
                if (Console.KeyAvailable && keyPressHandler(Console.ReadKey(true))) break;

                Console.Write(i + " ");
                Thread.Sleep(250);
            }
        }

        protected static Boolean keyPressHandler(ConsoleKeyInfo input)
        {
            if (input.Key == ConsoleKey.Escape) return true;

            return false;
        }
    }
}

15 Exercises for Learning a new Programming Language

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 06:43:55 UTC

So I saw this page which gives a list of 15 Exercises for Learning a new Programming Language. I thought, this could also be a good way to compare different languages. In that spirit I'm going to do just that and try to complete the list in different popular languages. To start with I will do them in C# and Java.

As it turns out I'm much less familiar with C# than Java so it will also be a learning experience as the original article had intended. You can see the progress in Programming.

javascript trim

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 01:11:29 UTC

function trim(str) {
	var	str = str.replace(/^ss*/, ''),
		ws = /s/,
		i = str.length;
	while (ws.test(str.charAt(--i)));
	return str.slice(0, i + 1);
}

source: http://blog.stevenlevithan.com/archives/faster-trim-javascript

Why Open Source?

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 08:58:24 UTC

This guy seems to have the right idea on why people would ever choose open source.