Programming

Programming — 2 Comments
13
Oct 09

Programming languages suggest your political affiliation

That’s right, I said it. We’ve all either fell victim to this crime of ignorance or seen someone who has. An elementary-level math problem attacks while your fingers are nonchalantly resting on your home row and the first thing that comes to mind is: let’s have the computer figure it out! It is this critical point where your subconscious kicks in, refers to your deep and statuesque political belief structure and decides what the next few characters will be in your console. These characters are the definition of you. Let me explain.

Hello World

Encapsulated in that marvel of command-line wizardry only a lazy pirate would understand is your political perspective. Let’s break down each of the languages we can use to solve this problem so we can better understand your cognitions.

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8
Aug 09

devbarjs: A cross-browser development tool and plugin framework.

The classic frustration with any web development generally arrives the first time you fire up a new web browser to see how your blood, sweat and tears end up looking outside of your favorite environment. This is the time when tears splatter across monitors, brilliant minds of less than a quarter century losing their hair faster than a diseased mammal at spring time, disaster striking in the form of dogs and cats living together, utter chaos. It may be a trailing comma on character 3,565 (of 35,355 lines of JS) or an easy mistake of using a position: fixed CSS attribute, inherited from a 3rd party library. A simple compilation of stupidity and carelessness combined to transform a functional LCD panel into a web of cracks; each creating a wake of red, purple, blue and yellow as it trails as to further indicate you are again down to only a single monitor from your original two. It is this pain that has brought me to give you devbarjs. I’m sorry and you’re welcome all wrapped up into a single, extensible package.

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16
Jul 09

Generating Heat Maps Using Perl

A while back, I worked on a project with a company I’m working for and it eventually evolved into something I released to Perl’s open archive network, CPAN and chatted about for my first SPUG talk.  Naturally, as the Conwaytistical Perl programmer I am, I figured why not write about it one more time for old times sakes.  Generally speaking, Google has already found the documentation for the module which is all I really figure is necessary to explain it.  The crazy thing is that people seem to be using this… a lot.  Likely for the same reason I made it: there are no programmatic alternatives that I could find.  With this unfortune comes the destruction of my inbox with questions and curiosities ranging from examples to the process I took for making this module in the first place.  All things considered, I’m happy to see people using the module but it turns out I’m a little lazy and don’t like responding to strangers’ questions all that much.  Born from that comes this page.  When the forces of this are combined with the perldoc, I’m no longer needed and can feel much more at ease with the temperature of my shoulder as I ignore the trickle of emails that come to me.  Lucky for you, I am a personal fan of direct examples that can be followed without the needless bloat of words, and this is what I’m going to (try to) do.  The only predicate to this instruction set is that we will assume you are going to map the US.  It’s possible to map the entire world, but we will only work with the US for now.  Go USA!

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