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Last.fm gets it right

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

I recently discovered an online music service and community called Last.fm. Like Pandora, it provides a way to find music that you like, based on other music you like.
Pandora’s concept is to be able to determine what music sounds like, and find other music that sounds similar. Last.fm’s concept is more social networks centered, using […]

Thinking in DFS vs BFS

Monday, May 14th, 2007

The concepts of depth-first search (DFS) and breadth-first search (BFS) are usually used to describe an algorithm for visiting nodes in a graph or a tree structure. The key difference is whether you visit all of the nodes nearest to you first, then begin radiating outward from there, or whether you continue as deep as […]

Seadragon and Zooming Interfaces

Friday, May 11th, 2007

Jeff Atwood has written a blog entry about Zoomable interfaces, including an image of Microsoft’s Seadragon product as an example. The other examples in his post are mostly concerned with the ability to zoom in and out for finer grained control or higher-level operations.

I think Seadragon is the most intriguing example, and has the potential […]

Graphics Editing

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

Jeff Atwood made a post today about the importance of a developer having the skills and tools to do basic image and graphics manipulation.
I highly agree, and I cringe every time I see a 2MB attachment on a mailing list because the taker of the screenshot was not aware that even Paint can save as […]

Fibonacci numbers

Monday, April 23rd, 2007

A Fibonacci number refers to a term in a sequence with a recurrence relationship based on the previous two terms of the sequence. More specifically, a given number in the sequence is equal to the sum of the two previous terms. The first two terms are both 1, which yields the sequence { 1, 1, […]

Javascript Maze

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007

Last night I was thinking it would be cool to see if I could use HTML tables and Javascript to generate and solve a maze. I figured I could control the borders of the table cells to form the walls, then use a standard maze solving algorithm.
It turns out this is actually quite doable. This […]

iPod and iTunes Annoyances

Friday, March 2nd, 2007

So I’ve been using my iPod to listen to music in my car and at work. This is synchronized with my iTunes collection at home.
I also have iTunes installed on my computer at work, and I plug my iPod in to listen to it through the headphones i have connected to my computer.
The problem lies […]

BlueDot Widget

Thursday, March 1st, 2007

Yet another blog widget, this time from BlueDot.
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del.icio.us Link Roll

Thursday, March 1st, 2007

Here’s another one. I created an account over at del.icio.us. I guess I’ve been on a mission recently to find what else is out there as far as widgets you can put on a blog to bring your content from other sites onto your own.

my del.icio.us

Another Widget: Twitter

Thursday, March 1st, 2007

So I signed up for Twitter to see if they have a widget I could put on my blog. It turns out they do (requires Flash though):
follow jacobc at http://twitter.com
Getting this one onto my blog wasn’t nearly as slick as Shelfari. The example flash widget took a couple moments to even load, and the Javascript […]

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