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Contest Followup

By matt, on March 23rd, 2007%

Michael posted a complete gallery of photos from the contest on the Greenfoot site. He did not, however, capture our top winner in a reflective, contemplative pose:

“I can beat that guy…”

Joe Coglianese showed that professors from big-name Universities have to get to work on their Greenfoot chops pretty early in the morning if they’re [...] . . . → Read More: Contest Followup

Is that a supercomputer in your pocket?

By matt, on March 23rd, 2007%

Not too long ago, we made a few interesting changes to the Transterpreter.
The first was that we updated the Multiterpreter. Donkeys-months ago (like donkeys-years, but not quite as long) we modified the interpreter to map occam-pi processes to operating system processes. This meant that we could run code in true parallel on multiple CPU or [...] . . . → Read More: Is that a supercomputer in your pocket?

We built this city…

By matt, on March 21st, 2007%

Sunday I take off for San Fran, and am pretty psyched. Christian, Jon, and I are heading to the AAAI Spring Symposium to talk robotics and concurrency with a bunch of other robotically-minded people; that fills our time between Sunday and Wednesday. Thursday, we’ll be giving a Google TechTalk, which should be very fun—at least, we’re . . . → Read More: We built this city…

Things we learned this evening

By matt, on March 19th, 2007%

Iron-on transfer paper is really cool! You can print on it from an ink-jet (mirrored, of course), then iron on anything you want onto (say) a T-shirt! Groovy!
Iron-on transfer doesn’t really work with fleece! In particular, fleece headbands!

Yeah, I tried doing an iron-on transfer onto a fleece headband. It kinda flattened the headband and left it . . . → Read More: Things we learned this evening

The Busy Writer: Revisiting Backups

By matt, on March 12th, 2007%

In sequence: 1 2 3

I’ve recently been experimenting with both JungleDisk and jetS3t for backups. I like the command-line driven jetS3t, but must admit that some new features are being rolled into JungleDisk that I really like. In particular, the most recent version (1.25) of JungleDisk supports:

Fast file copying / renaming / moving without the need . . . → Read More: The Busy Writer: Revisiting Backups

SIGCSE 2007: Day 3

By matt, on March 10th, 2007%

First thing in the morning, we have a crowd waiting to get their updated and new submissions in. It began at 9:30 AM, and from then until the closing at 10:20, everyone was frantically updating and tweaking their Greeps until they were lean, mean, tomato-eating machines.

The doors finally closed on submissions, and the top three [...] . . . → Read More: SIGCSE 2007: Day 3

SIGCSE 2007: Day 2

By matt, on March 9th, 2007%

Somehow, we went from day -1 to day 2. In truth, I should have labeled “Day -1″ as “Day 0″, at which point things would make more sense.
*cough*
Today we’ve had a great response on the Greenfoot competition; in fact, things have been hotting up all afternoon as people come and go from the Sun Microsystems [...] . . . → Read More: SIGCSE 2007: Day 2

SIGCSE: Day -1

By matt, on March 7th, 2007%

The day began for many of us (coming from Kent) at an unreasonably early hour. Poul and I, for example, were marvelling that we felt “wide awake!” at breakfast… at 6:30AM. This is, of course, because we’re still in GMT, and you tend to wake up kinda early in EST.
Poul is spending the day at [...] . . . → Read More: SIGCSE: Day -1

Humans and Crypto II

By matt, on March 7th, 2007%

I received this comment to my last post:

Jungrire, qhqr. V’z n uhzna naq V unir penml znq rapelcgvba fxvyym

This cyphertext does not look like it went through a particularly hard algorithm. In fact, the remenant of punctuation, and the fact that some of the letters show up with what appears to be a “normal” frequency is . . . → Read More: Humans and Crypto II

Greenfoot @ SIGCSE 2007 (Free iPod!)

By matt, on March 4th, 2007%

SIGCSE 2007 in Covington, Kentucky is going to be an exciting place for Greenfoot activity. Michael is leading a workshop on Greenfoot, and we will have some space (free iPod!) at the Sun Microsystems booth in the exhibition space for presenting Greenfoot and talking to people who are interested in this really cool software.

What might [...] . . . → Read More: Greenfoot @ SIGCSE 2007 (Free iPod!)

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