January 2009
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defmacro - Taming Doubt →
Awesome read. Ties into the Mindfulness stuff I have been reading about (outcome vs exploratory thinking).
Am not getting enough work done
Not enough reading.
Not enough coding.
Need to sort this out.
Death by Spinning
Did the first 1 and a half hour spinning class in a long time today. Almost gave up about twice. Utterly knackered now.
It all used to be so much easier
“Rather than design a program that you plug library functions into, you plug your...”
– Cocoa Fundamentals Guide
This applies to just about any framework, I wish more developers would get that into their heads, rather than ignoring/fighting the framework and generating lots of busy-work.
Preserving Digital Archives →
jingc:
The BBC’s Doomsday Project of 1986, intended to record the state of the nation for posterity, was recorded on two 12inch videodisks. By 2000 it was obsolete, and was rescued only thanks to a specialist team working with a sole surviving laser disk player.
It’s sobering to realize that in just 14 years, a storage format can be so obsolete that there is only one device left that is...
hackety org » Illuminated Letters in NodeBox →
“Nodebox is beautiful. So much nicer than Processing.”
More thoughts on eating...
So after I binged out on toast, I was thinking about eating even more food for a good 10 - 20 mins.
Now I feel full.
Need to monitor how long it takes me to feel full after eating.
Also need distractions from thinking about food.
Late night eating...
…and by eating I mean binging.
I need to change something here. Maybe eat more during the day perhaps.
I’ll look into it tomorrow.
Visualizing Data
Read a couple of chapters of Ben Fry’s book.
Fry’s approach to visualization seems opposed to Tufte’s approach. Having said that, I need to re-read Tufte’s work, because it has been years since I last read any of it.
Started playing around with Processing. The UI/application feels pretty horrible imo. No doubt because its a Java application, and because I have been...
Sunday
Yoga in the morning (well when I woke up).
Struggled with some Maths for a couple of hours.
Some exercises on the balance ball and some more Yoga (lame work out).
Reading about Information Visualization.
Waiting for processing to download.
Yoga
Didn’t bother going to the gym today, and at the last minute decided to do some Yoga at home.
Its always surprising how quickly Yoga makes you break into a sweat.
The DVDs I have arent that great I dont think, but its a start. Will have to check out some classes at the gym.
Also was surprised by just how relaxed I felt afterwards.
More Yoga is on the cards.
iPhone work update 8: Animated rotations on tap
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iphone work update 7: Gradient Background
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iPhone Work update 6: Dashed outline option
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FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU moment
A FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU moment during iPhone work which set me back by about an hour.
iPhone work update 5: Added a slider
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“Here we are at Microsoft: realigning resources and reducing costs. And laying...”
– Mini-Microsoft on today’s lay-offs at Microsoft.
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Gym today
Kenshi: I've just got back from the gym
Kenshi: another lame kind of workout
Kenshi: a bit more work than yesterday though
Tough times for Sony
Fun and Programming
There’s no doubt that Ruby is a great and fun programming language.
Likewise there is no doubt in my mind that Rails is a great web framework that makes web programming as fun as it can be.
BUT - and you knew there was a but - there is currently no escape from the limitations of the presentation side of web apps.
CSS, HTML, Browser limitations = FUN KILLERS.
“But whitehouse.gov violates the most basic rule — “People come back...”
– Dave Winer on The White House website (Scripting News)
iphone work update 4: User defaults working
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iPhone work update 3: Shape changes according to...
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iPhone work update 2: Throwing Shapes on the...
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iPhone work update 1: The Code
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iPhone work as of yesterday
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Back to the Gym
Yes I finally went back to the gym today. Didn’t have my ipod (it wasn’t charged). I did barely anything, just 15 mins on the crosstrainer and 15 mins on the step machine (on a low setting: 7).
And it all was so much EFFORT.
I need to get back into all of this.
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Feeling Lazy
It’s Obama Day and I’m still feeling incredibly lazy.
The irritating cough is still present.
I am not getting much reading or coding done.
And I am struggling to get my ass to the gym.
Not good….
Palm: Application Distribution on webOS →
Check out all the comments on this blog post at Palm. So many potential developers, all with different needs and priorities.