Netvibes Widgets for JDK and OSS Search
Netvibes has recently released a very cool update on their Widget API (see Ginger and UWA). It is now possible to create widgets that can be used in iGoogle, Apple Dashboard, Opera, Windows Live,...
View ArticleNetvibes Search Widgets Updated
I have just updated the Netvibes (iGoogle, Apple Dashboard, Opera, Windows Live) search widgets with some Javascript voodoo. See my previous post for more info about these widgets. You can try them...
View ArticleTwo Word Anagram Finder Algorithm (in Ruby)
Today I have got some sourcecode for you. There is a little programming challenge named The Self-Documenting Code Contest that is quite fun, they try to find the cleanest and easiest to read code for...
View ArticleApproximation of sqrt(x) in Java
Yesterday I have played a bit with reinventing a fast approximation for sqrt() in Java. This might be handy with J2ME. Wikipedia has a nice article about Approximations that depend on IEEE...
View ArticleOnline Password Encrypter for Apache
Apache uses (among other hashes) SHA-1 keys for encryption in the .htpasswd. I administer a subversion server, and from time to time I have to add new external users to the system. This is usually...
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How to Generate Random Colors Programmatically
Creating random colors is actually more difficult than it seems. The randomness itself is easy, but aesthetically pleasing randomness is more difficult. For a little project at work I needed to...
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svn-shortlog — Compact & Beautiful Subversion Changelog
At work we periodically have short developer meetings to discuss what has happened in the last month. To do this, we go through the bugs in our issue tracking system, and the subversion commits in our...
View ArticleCleverness Considered Harmful
I have just read this nice quote at the stackoverflow question “Why is cleverness considered harmful in programming by some people?“: Fools ignore complexity; pragmatists suffer it; experts avoid it;...
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Single N-Back
I have just created my first Android app. It is a simple game, called Single N-Back. It has been shown in multiple studies that this game can improve your fluid intelligence. You can get it here:...
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Quickly Solving the “Instagram Engineering Challenge: The Unshredder”
Today I have read about the Instagram Engineering Challenge: The Unshredder, and decided to give it a try. The task is simple to explain: Create a program that can unshred this image (do not try the...
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