Coding Category
Posts related to programming, gadgets, web design, and general code/hacking.
Jan 4 | Help me test out Haptico!
Haptico is a little app that I made over Christmas break that lets your phone tell you if you're headed in the right direction without having to take out the phone.
Dec 30 | Goodbye GoDaddy
On January 13, 2005, I purchased chronicled.org from Globat.com, and it entered registration 3 days later.
Dec 25 | How 6 newsreader apps behave offline
Merry Christmas everyone! I assume a good number of people have gotten something iPhone/iPad related this year, and I've had the opportunity to test out several newsreader apps for a couple weeks and hope to share my results here.
Dec 4 | Custom iPhone lock screens on iOS5
It looks like iOS5 made things a little complicated with regards to loading customized lock screens (like LS Nimbus, where the weather images wouldn't load and the black bar would remain) so I've created a tutorial that will let you get yours working in no time.
Cydia packages you'll need:
Winterboard
Slide to Unlock Killer
LS Nimbus iOS5 version here
As before you'll want to open and edit LockBackground.html and search for "locale", and replace your city instead of mine.
Nov 18 | Rio does Interview Algorithms: Episode 1
In order to keep myself accountable for the next 10 days or so I have to brush up on my algorithms (in anticipation of interviews), I've decided to log a few of the algorithms I come across while on my hunt for interesting questions that I may be asked, specifically to prevent myself from getting stage-fright whenever someone asks me to write up a piece of code on a blank whiteboard.
Jul 3 | WordNet Similarity bundle
Image via Andreas Westh
After toiling about setting up my own WordNet Similarity system (see link) and realizing that such a good system has not been very active since 2008, I decided to give it a stab and make it easier for other people to do the same.
Jun 30 | Google Plus bar color changer extension
I made a Chrome extension that lets you change the color of the Google Plus bar because the gray is utterly boring.
Jun 23 | LinkedIn Skills Map
A colleague at IDEO mentioned the new Skills & Expertise feature in LinkedIn and I eagerly checked it out.
Jun 11 | Setting up the Arduino Pro Mini and Bluetooth Mate on Mac
Jonathan Warren has a great tutorial on setting up the Bluetooth Mate with a Windows machine, but being the owner of a Mac I figured I could share some of the minor changes you need to do.
May 29 | Using LibSVM for text categorization on a Mac OS X
There are very few practical tutorials for converting from raw text to classification using LibSVM, and using Weka can be somewhat of a compromise.