Looking for work
Jul 13Well, Penelope and I are essentially done with our masters degrees. We each passed our thesis defense and all that remains to be done is to finish up some minor formatting corrections that the graduate school tells us to make. I’ve been looking for Ruby, Clojure, or Java programming positions. If anyone knows of a Ruby, Clojure, Java, PHP, or JavaScript position, please send me a heads-up....
XBRL
Jul 09The XBRL spec will put you to sleep. In any case, I’m making an XBRL parser in ruby. Yeah, we already have xbrlware community edition, but it’s artificially limited and I didn’t want that, so I’m building my own. Also, xbrlware represents the entire taxonomy as a Ruby class. I am going to make mine a little more generic than...
“Like”
Jun 16This whole Facebook “like” thing is getting out of hand. Facebook keeps recommending things to me that other people “like”. You know what other people like? Books. Not specific books, just “books”. You know what else people like (or so Facebook tells me)? They like “country music”. Not particular artists, not particular songs, but “country...
Eyes And Feet and more: Turbo-boost your WiFi signal – in 15 minutes
Jun 10Eyes And Feet and more: Turbo-boost your WiFi signal – in 15 minutes. Cool! Build your own parabolic antenna adapter using a cut-out pattern, aluminium foil, paper, glue, and a knife.
Things you learn while programming.
May 30One of the things I like most about programming is that to implement something correctly you must understand the details of whatever you’re implementing. I’ve been reading about MACD this evening and I’ve come to a better understanding of the MACD trading strategy than I’ve ever had. Last week I was reading about the exponential moving average (EMA) and now I understand it...
The Hilbert Hotel – Opinionator Blog – NYTimes.com
May 10Link: The Hilbert Hotel – Opinionator Blog – NYTimes.com This is a good read. In a class I took with my thesis advisor, he explained the Hilbert Hotel similarly, and it was as entertaining then as this is now.
