personal blog of travels, tech & opinions
Today during a meeting a simple coding question came up as to how to write a palindrome function. A palindrome is a word, phrase, number, or other sequence of symbols or elements, whose meaning may be interpreted the same way in either forward or reverse direction.[1] Examples: mom , level, radar, tenet … There are…
The Cherry Blossom 10K in Newark’s Branch brook park, is a popular 10k race held in mid-April (typically during the height of the cherry blossom bloom) and sponsored by the Essex county parks system ,part of the race proceeds go towards the Special Olympics and its a well organized and attended local race. This…
Some photos of the 2013 edition of the Cherry Blossom Challenge Cycling races. Photos are free! Simply Share this link (and link back) or leave some feedback below.. just something I do for fun, please give out this link to friends and other riders who may have attended. I only posted…
I recently ran across an interesting post on Gizmodo (How Far Do You Run Playing Different Sports?), which answered the often asked question of how far do athletes run in popular sports , such as baseball, basketball, football etc. I had always heard that soccer players run about 13 miles…
One of the fun things I’ve done in recent years, was attend several air shows, not only to enjoy the entertaining displays of aerobatic military and civilian aircraft, but also to test out my photography skills in capturing really fast action.. I love taking action photography especially of sports,cycling, auto and motor racing,…
Problem: For a recent project I needed to get the latest exchange rates to allow the sales folks to quickly calculate costs while doing estimates in different currencies. There are many sites online where you can do this, but we wanted to create an in-app widget that could be re-used…
I recently picked up a pair of Inventio-HD 720P Video & Audio Recording Sunglasses (referred herein as Sunglasses video cams) you can find them on Amazon for about $130. I’m a big fan of recording video during activities, trips, and especially sport such as running/ cycling etc. Of course I can use…
