Found this in my codebase today. It might have even been me who wrote it:
boolean delorted = kid.delete();//a nod to Coach-Z
A/B Box
Last night I built an A/B box for my guitar setup (to switch between two signal paths, usually effects->Amp A/Amp B or Guitar -> Signal Path/Tuner. It was a first little foray to see if I could do something like this. It worked out pretty well – I got a diagram from www.fulltone.com and pretty much copied it – I got most of the parts from pedalparts – although with the exception of the 3pdt switch you could get them all at frys for about $15. if it’s not plugged in to power, the LED’s don’t work, but for some reason, the power seems to add a tiny bit of noise. I’m not sure why yet.
Technical Books, Languages, and Project Euler
First things first:
Hi. How have you been? Ok, Honestly, I don’t care.
Moving on.
I just got some new tech books: Programming Erlang (semi-work related), Programming Pearls (2nd edition) and Beautiful Code.
I started working on Programming Erlang but stopped a few chapters into it. For someone that has thought exclusively in OO for the last 10 years or so, trying to remember that = is a pattern matching operator is f’d up.
Anyways, a couple weeks ago I started to do Project Euler to learn a bit of python, and plowed my way through a bunch of the first problems (20-30) – they were mostly easy, even though my math stops at grade 12 – a few I ran into constraints issues where I actually had to think my way through the problem, or, even more rarely, find a mathematical explanation of the problem in order to write an algorithm. (the two triangle problems caused this. )
Python is a pretty cool language, very easy to learn.
Anyways, I had originally started this post with the desire to write a list of books I can’t do without, but I kinda got sidetracked. By Work.
An Update on a Canadian Legend
There is a piece of literature that is a piece of historical and cultural significance, called The Sweater. It’s taught to kids in canadian schools, was made into a short animated film, and is even commemorated on the back of Canada’s 5 dollar bill. I read it to my kids and am trying to instill in them the national pride of Canada, and our innate hate for the Toronto Maple Leafs.
Analog Wii
My family and I went camping last weekend and even in a place with no electricity, cell reception, running water or bathrooms, we managed to get in a little Wii gaming.
Analog Wii. It’s the next revolution.
And the pixel count was off the scale.