I defended my dissertation way back on July 23, 2010, and on Monday (12/20/2010) it was accepted for submission. So I’m done with grad school. Huzzah! Now I just have to find a job.
Category Archives: Personal
WordPress plugin: withings-scale
I just released a WordPress Plugin for the Withings WiFi Scale. The plugin just allows you to easily embed the Withings smaller gadget into the sidebar of your WordPress blog. It should be appearing in the WordPress plugin gallery sometime in the near future. You can download it now (assuming you have a Withings Scale …
My First Computer: TI-99/4A
Between the earlier blog posts on BASIC programming, RobotWar and this article over at PC Advisor, I suppose I got nostalgic for my first home computer. The Texas Instruments 99/4A — what an awkward name that was. At school, I had first experience a couple of different Apple ][+ computers (a Bell & Howell and …
Health
I’ve started a separate blog to chronicle my journey towards a healthy lifestyle. You can find it at: http://sandro.knot.org/health I’m guessing the day-to-day posts are going to be pretty mundane, but your encouragement and support would be appreciated.
RobotWar
This 10 top list of computer games includes an honorable mention for RobotWar. I actually discovered RobotWar when my friend Steve Green created a version for X11. While we had a great time coding robots I think the most interesting things was figuring out how Silas Warner managed to program it on an Apple ][. …
Wedding Update
I’ve been particularly quiet these last couple of days because I’ve been working on the new wedding website. Well that and slogging through some data analysis for a journal article. Anyway, head on over there and let me know what other CSS nightmares I’ve caused. http://tying.the.knot.org PS: No, I didn’t plan that when we got …
Perspectives on Programming
Lately Mike Taylor over at the Reinvigorated Programmer has been on a roll with a couple of interesting blog posts (at least interesting enough to make Slashdot). First he blogged about deterioration of programming into pure drudgery and more recently he’s disagreed with Dijkstra on the value of BASIC as a first programming language. Here …
Last 1-800-Flowers update
I finally got a refund from 1-800-flowers. 23 days after this all started, I can close the book on this mess. For the record, don’t bother talking with them on the phone. Just go straight to the online customer support (who could have guessed).
Upgraded bubbles
A little Photoshop wizardry (courtesy of an online tutorial), and I’ve upgraded the bubbles in my first iPhone application. I need to figure out a real game of some sort to use these in so I can justify putting it on the App Store.
My first iPhone app
I’m still tinkering, but I pretty much just finished my first iPhone app that’s more interesting than a list of text. As I mentioned before, I’m taking the iPhone class at UMD this semester; and this is/was lab #3. Basically it’s just a small app that creates bubbles as you tap the screen, and pops …