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A Social of Anti-Socials

I went to a developer conference thing yesterday. My first one in a very long time. The venue was a nice hotel in midtown. The morning started with a light breakfast and this intensely boring Introductory Session. After that, we all adjourned to our choice of sessions, depending on what

Program will Continue

I was digging around for some example code that would help me figure out why I'm experiencing drawing problems with my UIPickerView when I rotate it 90 degrees, and I found a forum post signature thing that read: if (!exit(-1)) fprintf(stderr, "exit call failed. Program

SIGEV_THREAD

I don't want to give away the secrets of my future projects until they're closer to the prototype stage, but this most recent personal programming endeavor was going to feature asynchronous io to facilitate my goal of a very efficient, single-machine system, capable of handling hundreds

Small Victories

The corporate network at my present employer isn't as bad as Bloomberg's - but its not far off. All web browsing goes through this ridiculous HTTP proxy server that is now being rebooted nightly due to stability issues. Further, it seems to prevent HTTP POSTs of

CSS

I prettied up the McKinley journal substantially ... fumbling my way through more CSS than I ever wanted to know (while eating goldfish crackers and consuming a fine Pinot Noir). Instead of having clumps of images, they're all vertically aligned with captions. And Aimee, using her l33t Photoshop skilz,

Most Useless Menu Option

I've been using Mac OS X since its pre-release days when it was known as Rhapsody (DR-2), which'd put it right around May 1998. And I'm not sure when this particular menu option made its way into the Apple Menu, but it wasn'

Idiots

I added some new RSS feeds to my iPhone application (this is a work project), and when I tried to view one of those feeds, the program died - an uncaught exception - something about accessing an index of an array beyond its bounds. Hmm. Objective-C is a wonderful language,

I Love Being a Programmer

I love being a programmer. Not to generalize too much, I'll just make the claims for myself. Typically the technologies that are fresh in my head are only those that pertain to my current job. The others fall by the wayside, although they're usually easily resurrected.

I Was Wrong

It happens. It turns out that libxml2 supports something pretty similar to what I had in mind. Instead of providing the SAX parser with a get-more-input-data callback, it has a "push" mechanism whereby one gives it data as it becomes available instead of buffering and providing data as

Message Parsing

So, I have this 2nd job that I do in the evenings, at home. At the moment I'm implementing this fairly poorly documented binary protocol that is used for serializing data structures. I have an example message that I managed to tear out of the also-poorly-documented transport protocol,

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