Thoughts, Ideas, and Discussions

Spotlight: Leah Creates {01-29-2011}

One of the best things about being involved in the world of technology, besides getting a front row seat to all the amazing advancements made every day, is meeting and talking with the creative people who make the magic happen. I think I’m especially lucky, having strong ties to a range of different areas such [...]

10 Reasons the Commodore 64 Will Never Die {09-10-2010}

As some of you might have guessed by now, I’m pretty heavily into retro computers. I love them all in different ways, but the C64 holds a very special place in my heart in particular. It was my very first computer (and my only machine for 8 years) – and it introduced me into a [...]

Fun Ways to Sharpen Your CS Skills {09-07-2010}

If you’re anything like me, once you learned how to code, you would take any chance you could get to write little programs for fun. I remember once I finally “got” BASIC on my Commodore 64 growing up, I would spend hours writing the cheeziest (looking back) programs. A favorite of mine was writing countless [...]

5 Reasons for Putting Your Personal Code Into Subversion {06-27-2009}

If you’ve ever programmed for an organization with multiple developers, you’ve most likely used some kind of system to synchronize, combine, and version code. Without a such a tool, changes to the same files amongst two or more people can get very confusing and hard to manage very quickly. However, even if you’re just dealing [...]

A Thought on Efficiency {12-16-2008}

WARNING This borders on a rant – I get into moods where I like to rant, and this is one of them. Treat it accordingly A (semi) quick thought before I go to bed. There are times in my technology filled life of smart phones, streaming, bluetooth, web 2.0, multitasking, scheduling, interoperability, synchronization, single sign [...]

Play Adventure Games, Be a Better Programmer {03-09-2008}

> Open trapdoor > Go down > Turn on lantern I can’t count the number of times I typed the sentences above on my faithful Commodore 64 immediately after getting home from school every weekday afternoon. An explanation to the uninitiated: these simple statements were a way of communicating with a style of game known [...]