Author: Marc

JSON: A light-weight alternative to XML

I attended an interesting tech talk today - Douglas Crockford talking about JSON. It's pretty evident that JSON, because it uses JavaScript syntax, is certainly natural for JavaScript and especially AJAX (which is essentially...

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Cartman was right along

I haven't seen it and I don't know whether they actually eat pudding, but when I first saw the preview for Brokeback Mountain, the first thing I thought of was one of Cartman's classic lines in an episode of South Park about an...

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The future of Ruby

Slides from a presentation from Ruby creator "Matz" about future enhancements in Ruby2 and Rite. Why Ruby Sucks: A presentation by Matz

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OpenCV FreeBSD port

It looks like the FreeBSD ports folks finally sorted out the troubles with the FreeBSD port for OpenCV that I submitted back in March of 2005 Problem Report ports/78473: OpenCV...

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Ordered a Lego Mindstorms USB IR tower

Having built a simple Mindstorms robot, but not having the ability to program it, I bought a Lego Mindstorms USB IR tower on eBay. I can't wait for it to arrive so I can start messing around with RCX Code, NQC, brickOS (formerly...

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Seeker: A Lego Mindstorms Robot

Seeker: A Lego Mindstorms Robot, originally uploaded by msabramo. Seeker is a light-seeking robot with a tank-like chassis and it's used as an example in the "Extreme Mindstorms" book that Nicole bought for me. The problem is...

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Back from Vegas

It took us quite a while to get there, as there was a road-closing accident on 152 (Pacheco Pass) so we had to turn around and take 101 South down to Paso Robles and then take 46 East. We just barely made it to Mesa Grill on time...