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My Quirky Bucket List

Dec

30

2012

Ahh the proverbial bucket list. Its that time of year, when people begin to think of New Year’s resolutions. So I prefer to think a little longer term, not just in the next year, but lifetime…. As we complete yet another orbit around the sun, its time to realize as discomforting as it may be, ...

Bitcoin – currency fail .. or future of money?

Dec

13

2012

I’ve been pretty intrigued by bitcoin lately. If your not familiar with bitcoin you can of course head over to the wikipedia bitcoin entry or you can head over to this no nonsense post bitcoing post on gizmodo . In a nutshell bitcoin is an on-line digital currency (sometimes referred to as a crypto-currency) ...

html5 – javascript game frameworks? – Game Development

Dec

5

2012

HTML5 Gaming I’m beginning to look into various html5 javascript game and graphics frameworks. The toughest part is always choosing a good framework in the beginning, since its such a time investment to learn a new API , plus hope that the framework is popular enough so bugs are fixed quickly and it matures rapidly. This ...

the Running 3-Amigos

Dec

5

2012

Christine, Duncan and myself, have been very competitive this year. What I find so enjoyable about our ongoing running rivalry , is how close in capability all three of us are. On any given day one of us can beat the other two and this has made for some memorable races.

Code Samples – Preventing simultaneous web updates 3

Dec

4

2012

Below are some interesting problems and solutions that I have come accross. Problem: In a web based system how to you prevent simultaneous web updates (aka overwrites) to the same record by different users seeing potentially different data. This is a play on the old airline reservation problem you find in older computer science text books. If ...

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