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Crystalfontz LCD – 635 on FreeBSD and OpenSolaris

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

I have recently gotten a hold of a CFA 635 LCD + Keypad device. Very slick. I was doing some work with it and wanted to use a unix OS to drive the device for some custom work. I ran into a couple minor things when getting the device setup.
1) It works great in windows, [...]

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When free isn’t free – enforcement of the GPL just because

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

All I can say is wow. I read this article http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9142262/Multiple_consumer_electronics_companies_hit_with_GPL_lawsuit today and I am unfortunately not surprised. This is a perfect example of why many developers shy away from the GPL license when distributing their open source code.
First, I want to say I am a big fan of Open Source. I have used it [...]

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Seperation Code And State

Friday, December 19th, 2008

This is pretty clever. Definitely fits in the category of nerd humor. Worth a look
http://www.aegisub.net/2008/12/if-programming-languages-were-religions.html

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What’s happening inside your computer?

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008

Very good article on whats going on inside your computer. A very good description of the relative speeds of internal components. I especially liked the part about how accessing the hard drive is like “leaving the building to roam the earth for one year and three months”. For coders, this illustrates well why cache concurrency [...]

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CSS positioning made easy

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

I saw this page the other day. It is great. It shows you very simple examples of CSS positioning in an easy to understand format with visible examples.