Tron Bot

I spent a few hours cooking up an entry for this Tron Bot AI Competition. The starter packages they provided made it really easy to enter. I created an entry in python. The competition page is: //csclub.uwaterloo.ca/contest/ The strategy for my bot: I tried to implement painter’s flood fill per Wikipedia. This worked okay and […]

Stikker

Some coworkers and I have been working on Stikker, a cli interface for the Stikked FOSS php pastebin. I haven’t used it for awhile, but we recently set it up at work to facilitate code sharing. Unfortunately, it hasn’t been updated recently and there are some things which are broken which I’ll need to address. […]

CiteThis! Update 0.17

I modified CiteThis! with the following features this weekend: Added a citation list box, where you can queue all your citations. Removed the custom citation box from the preferences pane (it was not of use anymore) Fixed APA citation format to include last accessed date. Added some handling of author/titles: If title includes the host […]

SQL Pivot

A co-worker asked me about transposing a question response table. I came from a SQL 2000 background, so I was excited to play with the PIVOT command which is available in SQL 2005 and 2008. It’s a common use case to transpose row-based data into columns. Sometimes it just makes more sense to people to […]

Ruby Hiccups

I decided to try out some Ruby stuff this weekend. I wanted to do a quick little game with the rubygame gem, but I got some weird error attempting to install it on my 64-bit Snow Leopard Intel Mac Powerbook. I abandoned the effort, since I hate to expend time in system administration and installation. […]

ColdFusion Cheatsheet DateFormat TimeFormat

This is the start of a ColdFusion Cheatsheet. It contains mask options for DateFormat and TimeFormat. I plan to add to it as I find the need. ColdFusion Cheatsheet v0.001

Eclipse Dual Horizontal Window Editing

Here’s a method to setup dual-screen editing in eclipse. First, follow the instructions here to setup multiple editor windows: //addisu.taddese.com/blog/split-windowview-using-eclipse/ Basically, you select Window > New Editor, which will open the currently selected file again. You may have trouble at first, because it will be easier to create a vertical window than a horizontal. Drag […]

PHP joinr recursive

There was a recursive join function over at the join documentation on php.net. I wrote a version that was fully recursive on the delimiters, as well as more concise and understandable (IMO).

CiteThis! Update 0.16

I made an update at the request of someone who e-mailed me. This post describes this version: Custom citation formatting broken! (Will be addressed in next update.) Added variable citations depending on what fields are specified Added custom date formatting based on datejs Added custom handling of Wikipedia citations https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7972

Thirteen Facebook Application

Quicksilver Clipboard History Appearing Act

I’ve been using Quicksilver for its clipboard manager–among other things. If you’re a developer, having a clipboard history that is easy to access adds incredibly productivity. I was having an issue where the clipboard manager would suddenly appear out of nowhere, randomly. I was able to implement a cludgy fix by docking the clipboard manager […]

Update to CiteThis!

I updated my CiteThis! Firefox Extension with a few of the following features: Several updates including: Created preferences pane to allow selection of different reference styles Provided option for a customized citation string Implement some automatic author discovery for the page Improved performance by avoiding updates when hidden https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7972

Tutorials

I’ve been running through tutorials recently. Django earlier in the week and now Google Apps (Java). This particular post was helpful in fixing a problem I was having in Eclipse compiling a JSP page. //groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java/browse_thread/thread/f6052ac60cff68ac/d84b7a9e1f504953?q=Error+running+javac.exe+compiler#d84b7a9e1f504953

StackOverflow: How to insert into a table with just one IDENTITY column

I had a problem at work today, and this post on Stack Overflow resolved it. //stackoverflow.com/questions/850327/how-to-insert-into-a-table-with-just-one-identity-column

Sicbo Facebook Application

This is a Facebook application I wrote after the Thirteen application. It improves upon the first Facebook App with a new architecture. Animation uses the Facebook Animation library, and rendering is done via Smarty PHP Template engine. Lots of work went into the architecture, and there is even a localization scheme built in.

Jamie Ly

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