Author Archives: Fred
“Remembering Steve,” or “20 years of the Happy Mac”
It started with something called an “Apple II” in a darkened room at my elementary school. Oregon Trail, Odell Lake, turtle graphics, writing our first stories and printing them out. HyperCard, hours making flipbooks and puzzling through scripting on my … Continue reading
Copy and Copy JSON: essential Listener hacks.
Something I’ve really wanted in the Listener for a while is the ability to right-click and copy a string to the clipboard. I’ve been working around that by having my own “>clipboard” word that places a single string argument on … Continue reading
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Factoring the Luhn algorithm
I work a lot in the field of e-commerce, and have written at least two shopping carts. Anyone who has implemented any kind of payment processing probably knows about the Luhn algorithm, which is a simple test that one can … Continue reading
Sorting in Factor
So, mrjbq7′s post with words to find the maximum and minimum of a sequence of tuples got me thinking, and playing, and reading the Factor docs: all good things! I started with his test data: TUPLE: person name age ; … Continue reading
QR codes in Factor
Wow, so Factor is one of the most amazing programming languages that I’ve ever used. And I’ve used a bucketful of them in my checkered past, that’s for sure. But there’s something about using this odd little stack-based “concatenative” language … Continue reading
Pedal-powered machines
Check this out: http://www.processedworld.com/carlsson/nowtopian/technology/bike-stencils-bicimakinas-pedal-powered-tools-in-guadalajara Sketches and prototypes for bicycle powered machines — a blender, a food processor, a grain grinder, a lathe, even a washing machine! As high-tech as my world is, there would be something deliciously satisfying about pedaling … Continue reading
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Reflections on one week out of the home office
In which I discuss the recent move out of my home office, and reflect upon the benefits of the change. Continue reading
blip.June 10, 2010 12:16 pm
Progammers Must All Learn Statistics or I Will Kill Them All… still GREAT after all these years http://ping.fm/rp1Cd