So much programming to learn, so little time. I read about The String class online, but even though we use g++, I couldn’t get z = upcase(x) to work. I learned that I can’t do cin.ignore(1000,’\n’) unless I’m sure that I’ve requested input, because otherwise it stops the user until 1000 characters or \n (newline…Continue Reading…
My post on Mac OS X Password Recovery that I made almost a year ago continues to get comments today. It’s a fairly common issue. Since it has reached 126 comments (and the page is getting long), I’ve decided to close comments. You can continue discussion by leaving a comment here.
I went to a Chinese New Year event in McCarthy Quad tonight. Something with APASS, the Asian Pacific American Student Services, and/or the Chinese American Student Association. I got a free t-shirt, free food, and fun solving those little metal shapes that connect and disconnect. It was a cool event. I liked the fortune cookies…Continue Reading…
Here’s something I came up with last Friday. Perhaps it’s an original idea that I should pursue in the future. For lack of a better name, I call it the automated depersonlization of writing. It was inspired by a neat Ajax app called Writely, a web word processor. Now, a lot of what you’ll publish…Continue Reading…
I still have people asking me for Gmail and orkut invites to this day. It really takes a lot of time to keep sending them out. Still, there are rewards: I’ve met a good number of people this way, and it has increased membership at the Google Forum. If you’re looking for an invite, there…Continue Reading…
I joined Newsvine several weeks ago, and I had thought to myself, “What is this?” It just looked like a news website that connected people. But it’s a bit more than it appears. Scott McDaniel puts it this way: Newsvine.com is sort of like AP News + Digg + del.icio.us + blogging + chatting +…Continue Reading…