Had my first lecture yesterday. What an experience! I was absolutely sure that it won’t be much like when I was an actual student at Seneca, but it turns out I was wrong. Turns out I felt exactly the same way as I did when I was a student. It’s hard to describe that feeling. …
Continue reading DPS924 Part2: First lectureI’m taking DPS924, an Android programming course here at Seneca. I’m officially registered in it as a student, and even paid 20$ for it (I get a special deal as a faculty member :)). Why on earth would I be doing that? Because though I’m more familiar with Android internals than most – I have …
Continue reading DPS924 Part1: What’s wrong with you?I post something on this blog occasionally about APNG and about how I’m no longer involved with it and about how this guy Max Stepin has been driving it for years. The last thing I mentioned on the topic was him adding APNG support to Chromium, which was very cool. Now he’s planning to create …
Continue reading Kickstarting APNGI always thought I’m pretty good at learning languages. After all I lived in 4 countries and at some point in my life spoke fluent russian, two versions of romanian, and english. But I’ve been trying to learn french for over a decade with no success. I used to think the reason is no immersion …
Continue reading Learning frenchI used to have a Sansa Clip Plus. After years of awesome service the clip from the Clip Plus broke off, which made it much less useful. For the last year I have been using a Sansa Clip Zip – a much newer model. I wasn’t as happy with it as I was with the …
Continue reading Rockbox firmware for Sansa Clip ZipI’ve gone on my honeymoon to Peru a couple of weeks ago and now that I’m back I’m going through my email. I have a spam filter but sometimes things go through it, especially if it’s something unusual. I’ve already deleted 4 spam messages, every single one of them in Spanish. I don’t even remember …
Continue reading When they know too much about youI got a few requests from readers of my Newfoundland trip to give them maps so they can more easily figure out where I’ve been. Should be easy given that I recorded most of the trip using a OpenGPSTracker, but that’s a story for another time. This post is about the dying practice (not art) …
Continue reading We used to write real shell scriptsIt occurred to me recently that when it comes to a software project – it takes more than just code to make it successful but at the same time we typically only measure the scope of a software project in lines of code (LOCs). In most organisations it’s laughed at as an official measure of …
Continue reading Measuring project effort in something other than Lines-Of-CodeOnce a month I archive my Apache logs. Which involves downloading them from the server and analysing them a little. This month (last month actually, I am slow with my blogging) there was something obviously unusual from the beginning: instead of the typical six or seven logrotated 50MB access logs I had 15. While I …
Continue reading Whee, I got DDOSedMax Stepin (the APNG maintainer) has added APNG support to Chromium. Good job, man!
Continue reading APNG in Chromium