Fractio
Fractio: a socket-based distributed Mandelbrot calculator Fractio is a refinement of my distributed mandelbrot calculator from a few years ago. This version uses sockets to manage the communication between the…
Read moreInterview with Amazon for Kindle Cloud Reader
Okay, the real reason I went to Seattle was to interview at Amazon for a developer position on their Kindle Cloud Reader project. I should preface this by stating that…
Read moreOcti For Kids Haskellbot
North: 12 prongs +—+—+—+—+—+—+ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | +—+—+—+—+—+—+ | | | |…
Read moreMy implementation of Tonobeb – a board game played with dice
Back in 1983, my uncle Bruce came up with a fun board game played with dice. My dad made a nice wooden board for it and Bruce got a write-up of the the game published in Gameplay Magazine. Fast forward to 2006 and I made a playable web version of the game; it was the first web application that I finished, and even now, I’m a bit impressed in using it.
Read moreFractile: browser-based distributed computation of Mandelbrot set tiles. Now on open source!
I open sourced my Yahoo Open Hack NYC 2009 entry into a github project called fractile. It’s currently only one php file with embedded Javascript at the moment. Feel free…
Read moreA proof of concept HTML + JS-based distributed computing platform
[update] Just fixed a bug that was preventing this from working in most browsers. Go ahead and give it a try now. I made this browser-based Mandelbrot set zoomer for…
Read moreLife after 40; W3C compliance, IPv6, cloud policy, and open APIs
My hipper-than-thou grandmother asked for comments on this article provoked by the 40th anniversary of the internet and the issues regarding the erosion of the openness that the internet was…
Read moreturning the premailer interface invisible
[update: looks like premailer changed their interface a little, which broke my domain-level meta-interface for it. I'll fix it sometime, just not now :(] Premailer is a nifty ruby script…
Read morePlans for my 15.4″ 1200p LCD DIY projector
I designed and partially built a projector about a year ago. I found these plans in my files and thought I’d post them. Download the full plans in Google Sketchup…
Read morePlaying with GE’s augmented reality
I find it a bit ironic that this green-themed marketing campaign instructs people to print a sheet of paper for personal amusement. It’s still pretty cool. See my solution to…
Read morerefracting magnifying glass effect with Javascript
After playing with this code and this demo of a javascript mouseover zoom effect, I decided to take the magnifying glass effect one step further and add some refraction: It…
Read moreGoogle Voice!
Google just finished converting my GrandCentral account to their new Google Voice service. Try calling me with this nifty widget:
Read moreExpiration date decoder
This page explains how to decipher many of the cryptic expiration dates found on food containers. This is very useful, but it occured to me that it would be even…
Read moreHallock Chemical Truck video and pictures
My great grandfather designed, built, and sold something called the “Hallock Chemical Truck”. I managed to get some video footage of one of their depression-era marketing campaigns. Click “read more”…
Read moreTemplate Metaprogramming
As part of a research and writing project in my Junior year, I wrote an explanation of template metaprogramming in C++ and how it relates to the functional programming paradigm.
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