Archive for September, 2009
Gowalla Over Foursquare
Enter Gowalla. Gowalla is similar to Foursquare in that it is a location based social network with a game element. You can get points for visiting certain places and there are “trips” you can take that involve checking in at multiple locations. Successfully completing a trip earns you points.
Why You Want to Learn C in Today’s Programming World
But could you write an operating system in C# or Java? Even if you could, should you? If you need something to run its fastest, shouldn’t it talk to the hardware as directly as possible? This is where languages like C (and even C++) come in.
Continuous Integration Workshop
This past Saturday I had the (scary) privilege of running a workshop on Continuous Integration. The workshop was put on by the Houston Alt.NET Group at the Houston Microsoft office.
The workshop covered many topics including Martin Fowler’s CI Principles, source control using Subversion and Git, NAnt, and TeamCity. While there wasn’t a ton of “workshop” related [...]
C Bitwise Operators
When I got laid off I decided that I had some extra time to finally go through the book “The C Programming Language” by Kerninghan and Ritchie (aka “K&R C Book”). I got through the first chapter without too much issue but the section on bitwise operators in the second chapter had left me [...]
Properly Using Twitter & FriendFeed
Basically to boil it down, I keep my Twitter stream fairly focused while my FriendFeed stream is anything but focused. FriendFeed is for those that desire information overload.
Git Resources
Over the last couple of months I have been working on moving all of my personal projects over to Git based source control. I have moved all of my source code to GitHub. The reason I did this was because I had been hearing a lot of good things about Git, I was tired of [...]
