Archive for the ‘Code’ Category

Fun with Word Cubes

Monday, July 26th, 2010

Programming Praxis (PP) recently published a puzzle that piqued my interest. Basically, the challenge is to code a solver for Word Cubes. Since I've always been a Word Cube aficionado, I decided to take a crack at the problem and see if I can come up with a decent solution. Before ...

You just got Vim’ed!

Sunday, June 27th, 2010

An additional pet peeve of mine resulted in yet another simple hack. I've found myself using my mouse too much while reading lengthy articles online. This fact became acutely evident when I was going through Google's Javascript Pacman implementation. Pressing the space bar in Firefox scrolls down, so that's great ...

Focus. Focus. Focus!

Tuesday, April 13th, 2010

This may be a huge pet peeve of mine, but I couldn't possibly be alone. Don't you hate when you land on a web page that asks for your username and password (or any other required information) and you realize you have to click on the first text box in ...

Problem solvers

Monday, March 16th, 2009

The question "What is it that you do again?" is something I've heard repeatedly ever since I started doing what I do for a living almost 7 years ago. People's face expressions usually range from the comic to the downright scary when I explain, as clearly as I possibly can, ...

We’ve all been there

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

Have you ever done any sort of enterprise software development? If you have, chances are you felt like this many times (click on the picture for a bigger resolution): Source: Hazelcast Did I strike a chord? I kind of miss those days. The days when my manager used to walk into my ...