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  • Graphical Patterns

    December 29, 2004

    I was browsing through secretrobot and came across a lot of interesting entries. In particular, the one on GUI Design Patterns caught my eye.

    Patterns have been something of a buzzword for programmers. Programmers often have to deal with the same kinds of situations in their programming tasks. While the code itself may be novel and unique, the general pattern of use is often the same. You might think of patterns as “formalized tactics”; there are known ways of dealing with certain situations. As applied to programming, the original concept of “programming patterns” was taken from architecture.

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  • SharpFlash

    December 29, 2004

    This looks neat, an open source project to extend Flash to the desktop using C#. There are other commercial tools that do the same thing, but it would be interesting to see how one goes about doing something like this. I’ll have to check it out later…blogging it so I don’t lose it. Via FLOG.

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  • Can’t Take the Sky From Me

    December 28, 2004

    The cast of Joss Whedon's FireflyI finally got around to watching Firefly, Joss “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” Whedon’s short-lived Science Fiction Space Western series. I picked it up on a whim several months ago after hearing some buzz about it being cancelled before its time…a mere 9 episodes aired on Fox, at random times and in random order, before it disappeared. The complete series on DVD includes those 9 episodes plus several ones that have never been seen. With over a thousand reviews on Amazon and a solid 5-star ranking, I was hopeful that Firefly would offer a fix for my post-Farscape depression.

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  • Pulling Teeth

    December 28, 2004

    Today was a long day…first, I got two wisdom teeth extracted, then I replaced my main hard drive on the production PC. Guess which one took longer.

    I was pretty nervous about getting the teeth yanked, but so far it hasn’t been a terrible experience. I had it done under local anesthetic at Modern Dental, which seems to be a good enough operation. It’s the first time I’ve had my teeth looked at here in the States; prior to this, my dentist uncle in Taiwan had done all the work. Apparently my extractions were more difficult than anticipated, because I have a mutant upper wisdom tooth that has three roots instead of one. It didn’t want to come out. The bottom tooth wasn’t much more cooperative, but it eventually came. The entire procedure took a little over an hour.

    Replacing my hard drive, on the other hand, took the better part of a day. Two of my hard drives were on the very brink of failure, which made it difficult to get the machine to boot up so I could transfer the boot files to the new drive. I eventually got it to work, but the data drive was hosed and I had to toss it. Fortunately I have everything backed up to a central server, so I haven’t lost anything. While I had the computer open, I also cleaned up the video card’s cooling fan, which was gummed up and making horrible noises.

    All in all, a productive if slightly annoying day. The next two days should be quite painful in the jaw and I’m on a no-alcohol, no chewing diet. So much for holiday drinking and eating!

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  • Go Team!

    December 23, 2004

    John Doerr is a VC with an apparently great track record, and does a Question and Answer session with Fast Company. He confirms the mental calculus that’s been churning in the back of my mind recently: a great team is everything. Worth reading, if you’re thinking about raising some hell with your own company some day. However, it’s the kind of advice that you will have had to experience before you really get it. Via jd.

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