I was looking for traffic conditions prior to my drive to Toronto and found that the Ministry of Transportation uses Google Maps to display the location and images from the highway traffic cameras around Toronto. Very neat!
Monthly Archive for July, 2008
Batman: The Movie
Jul 18, 2008
In anticipation for the Dark Knight, here is a clip of the dynamic duo from the original Batman starring Adam West and Burt Ward. A batcopter, a batladder, four cans of ocean repellent batspray… “Holy Sardines!”
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Distributed Source Control using Mercurial
Jul 17, 2008
I’ve recently started to experiment with distributed source control systems for my personal repository. I had been using Subversion previously, but it had several issues with directories that bothered me. In addition, since my primary computer was a laptop, I also wanted to have full commit and change tracking when I was offline.
So distributed source [...]
Developers are charged $99 for iPhone SDK
Jul 16, 2008
So the iPhone aka “something big” according to Roger’s has been released, and one of its greatest strengths is it’s extensible application platform. The iPhone SDK is available for free… but in order to have your application run on an actual iPhone, it will cost a developer $99 and an Intel powered Mac. Hmm.. great [...]
Pseudo-Random vs. True Random
Jul 16, 2008
A visual comparison between using the PHP rand() pseudo-random generator and the numbers generated by random.org, a truly random generator.
Stephen Hawking moving to Waterloo, perhaps
Jul 16, 2008
We may have a celebrity moving into Waterloo… Stephen Hawking!
Beamer, PDFTeX and XeTeX
Jul 16, 2008
I’ve recently started using the beamer class to create slides for my presentation. Up till now, I’ve been using powerdot, and found it more than sufficient. I initially thought beamer to be far more complex than necessary. However, one feature convinced me to switch: PDFTeX and XeTeX support.
Both PDFTeX and XeTeX create a PDF directly [...]
Streets of Waterloo
Jul 14, 2008
If you’re looking for some Waterloo school spirit, check out the UW rap anthem.
Server Move and Redesign
Jul 14, 2008
Switched providers and updated design. I found the old design far too distracting, so I hope this one is an improvement!
