Wordcamp Utah 2010 was today. It was very interesting, and I’ve picked up a few ideas for improving this blog. I’ll write more about that later. Until than, you can find some pictures here. (I’ll embed them later). You can find out more about it (and hopefully find full video’s here. Oh, and BlendTek made an appearance.
WordCamp Utah 2010
Aug 29
- @Bugs5382 Agreed, everyone thinks I know a bunch of stuff I don't, and I end up being people's 'human powered search engine'…grr…. in reply to Bugs5382 #
- Woot, I got my blag talking with twitter again.
# - Nervous about getting back to the grind-mill tomorrow… #
- Joy, at university now, we'll see how well that number theory class goes in about an hour now… :/ #
- RT: @Bugs5382 Sometimes I just hate .NET programing with a passion. #
- Ug…despite how nice the @android apis are, it is missing very important (and obvious) stuff for game making. #googlefail #
- @Sharky237 9/20 tweets are yours, I think that's the most I've ever seen from you in one time. I assume your talking to @scervixjaen? #
- @Sharky237, wow, and I click more and I get more of you.
# - @Sharky237 appearently so. Either way, good luck at west minister and have fun at the U today. in reply to Sharky237 #
- @Sharky237 What book are you using? The U's Discreet Structures uses Discrete Mathematics by Douglas Ensley and Winston Crawley. in reply to Sharky237 #
- TI, you make me cry sometimes. If any of you have an TI-NSpire, please contact me. #
- @cobbal What happened to mono? in reply to cobbal #
- Wow I started doing my first actual homework assignment today. #
- Erm…for this semester that is. #
- @cobbal Ah, I agree, which is why I have visual studio on my windows partition…but it was a pain to install. in reply to cobbal #
- Good news: Compilation got further, bad news: it still fails. Yeah for dependency hell. #
- Yeah…finally got openID for my domain working, I feel stupid it took that long though… #
- @Tim_LRR Do you mean: http://ustream.tv/channel/inside-the-moon (you typed in upstream) in reply to Tim_LRR #
- Well, at least android's SDK is open source, and I can get modified versions for the holes in the SDK: http://ping.fm/BsgoV #
- @Matt_LRR Would now be a good time to point out my Android powered device?
Actually, I agree with you, the 4 is a step up from the 3G. in reply to Matt_LRR # - Yes @wordpress does blend. #wcut #
- 3 min. and 1GB… #googlefail Hopefiully I'll get video up soon. #
- Learning about plugin development at wordcamp utah. #wcut #
- Presentation on budypress now going on at #wcut #
- Crappy footage from #wcut : Will it Blend: WordPress, http://ping.fm/7HfYi , hopefully we'll get better footage soon. #
- Now the video works: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua8FzAT8B4Q #wcut #
- And Wordcamp Utah 2010 is now over, that was fun. #wcut #
- @ideacampus good job. So what blotting software to blend next? in reply to ideacampus #
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- @Bugs5382 Agreed, everyone thinks I know a bunch of stuff I don't, and I end up being people's 'human powered search engine'…grr…. in reply to Bugs5382 #
- Woot, I got my blag talking with twitter again. #
- Nervous about getting back to the grind-mill tomorrow… #
- Joy, at university now, we'll see how well that number theory class goes in about an hour now… :/ #
- RT: @Bugs5382 Sometimes I just hate .NET programing with a passion. #
- Ug…despite how nice the @android apis are, it is missing very important (and obvious) stuff for game making. #googlefail #
- @Sharky237 9/20 tweets are yours, I think that's the most I've ever seen from you in one time. I assume your talking to @scervixjaen? #
- @Sharky237, wow, and I click more and I get more of you. #
- @Sharky237 appearently so. Either way, good luck at west minister and have fun at the U today. in reply to Sharky237 #
- @Sharky237 What book are you using? The U's Discreet Structures uses Discrete Mathematics by Douglas Ensley and Winston Crawley. in reply to Sharky237 #
- TI, you make me cry sometimes. If any of you have an TI-NSpire, please contact me. #
- @cobbal What happened to mono? in reply to cobbal #
- Wow I started doing my first actual homework assignment today. #
- Erm…for this semester that is. #
- @cobbal Ah, I agree, which is why I have visual studio on my windows partition…but it was a pain to install. in reply to cobbal #
- Good news: Compilation got further, bad news: it still fails. Yeah for dependency hell. #
- Yeah…finally got openID for my domain working, I feel stupid it took that long though… #
- @Tim_LRR Do you mean: http://ustream.tv/channel/inside-the-moon (you typed in upstream) in reply to Tim_LRR #
- Well, at least android's SDK is open source, and I can get modified versions for the holes in the SDK: http://ping.fm/BsgoV #
- @Matt_LRR Would now be a good time to point out my Android powered device? Actually, I agree with you, the 4 is a step up from the 3G. in reply to Matt_LRR #
- Yes @wordpress does blend. #wcut #
- 3 min. and 1GB… #googlefail Hopefiully I'll get video up soon. #
- Learning about plugin development at wordcamp utah. #wcut #
- Presentation on budypress now going on at #wcut #
- Crappy footage from #wcut : Will it Blend: WordPress, http://ping.fm/7HfYi , hopefully we'll get better footage soon. #
- Now the video works: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua8FzAT8B4Q #wcut #
- And Wordcamp Utah 2010 is now over, that was fun. #wcut #
- @ideacampus good job. So what blotting software to blend next? in reply to ideacampus #
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The Trash we Create
Aug 24
Today was the first day back at the grind-mill, erm, University. Originally with a 19 credit hour load, although I’ll be dropping it down to 16 so I can pursue other areas of my life (which is to say, programming, particularly Android Apps, but I’m open to any kind of programming). At University today though, I saw some interesting things. On top of realizing that I haven’t studied enough math this summer, I saw James, a person who I tried to help with CS 1410 the year before, reading my blag. Not only that, but he was reading my Twitter Weekly Update Posts, a post which, in all honesty, didn’t think anyone was interested in. (I only kept it there for posterity sake, and was looking for a way to remove it from the main feed altogether). Or rather, I think it was my blag, not to many have this exact layout, although I admit I couldn’t read the text from where I sat.
Then later today, Daniel (another person from school), said 10.10.10.10.10, a post I shared on Google Reader, which he apparently reads in Buzz. Along with my blag, my twitter feed, my google status updates, and who knows what else Google thinks is me (and as such, dumps it in there), as well as the few (non-existent) posts that I actually put in buzz itself. He also said that the weekly twiiter posts seemed somewhat pointless to him. (Which is to say, he saw my twitter posts, and then saw my weekly twitter updates which is just a reposting on my blag of what I posted, and thinks it’s somewhat dumb).
These situations made me think of two slightly conflicting things. First, people actually read what I write. I find this amazing because hardly anyone besides JT, and many spam bots. I find this amazing as I have almost put this blag in the list of things no one really wants to read, but will serve simply as a personal ID for me, and I was going to start a new blag, specifically dedicated towards programming/business related things, and keep this blag as a personal archive of my content. But other people besides me, albeit a small group of other people, also find it interesting. The second thing that I found interesting is all of the waste we’re putting out on the internet. I didn’t know my twitter feed was getting posted to buzz (I found out later that it was ping.fm that was posting to buzz, not ‘as’ bad), but then I was also putting it on my blag, which was also going to buzz. Even more, I never even touched buzz, I was just letting my content trickle into there because I didn’t really care. So, I’m posting multiple things to multiple services, why? Because I can? What I really need, is a single point of entry. Where I can post both short posts, and long, more thought out posts, like these. I would use wordpress, but the issues is that if I use a lot of really short posts, it clutters up the whole thing, leaving the longer posts, the ones I really care about, harder to find. I could use Ping.fm, I could even get it to post to wordpress, but I still have the issue about shorter posts becoming taking over the site. Also, if Ping.fm goes down, I’m sunk. Then, what about Reader? I could share something in Google Reader, and it get’s pushed to Buzz, but nothing else, or I could set it up to post on here, but we’re back to square one about shared items covering up the content I really care about. So, as I’m making this network, I also have to think about how long these services will last, as many of them have changing APIs, and I would like to have a life outside of keeping these tubes clean. Also, what if I create a loop of death, say for example, I get Ping.fm to post to wordpress.com, and I get wordpress.com to post to ping.fm (via rss), the internet (or at least a little corner of it, until someone noticed and stopped it) would come to a firey ball of death.
In short, I need a better CMS. Something that I own, but can ping to everyone else. Something that can also accept pings of its own (from things like google reader or buzz), and re-ping them, but be smart enough not to post things twice. Or, is all of this like a soap box, and only a few people are actually reading these narcissistic rants, and should we all get off of our soap boxes? Although again, I did find out today that a few people do read this blag.
Either way, I’ll let you know what I figure out when I do. And you can tell me what you think in the comments.
- @flowplayer, if the only difference between the full and OS versions of flowplayer is branding,what's preventing someone from getting the… #
- @flowplayer …source, and ripping out the branding, and distributing it as their own player? #
- @Sharky237 And what's with you're non usage of @? in reply to Sharky237 #
- Wow, waking up has been unusually hard this morning. #
- @AllDroid. Take as long as you need, you guys are doing great work! in reply to AllDroid #
- @ginatrapani No, try as I might, I fear someone will detect a pattern in my day, and use that against me. in reply to ginatrapani #
- I feel like I've just written enough documentation to match the amount of tweets I get in one day.
# - Oh, and what's worse, I'm still only half of the way done….and need to finish tonight, ug. :'( #
- @Sharky237 eTickle? in reply to Sharky237 #
- 6,000 later…I am done with all of the stupid documentation… /me is happy me. #
- Apparently it's a bad idea to play video games while taking care of other buisness, as your legs go numb quickly. #
- Wow, it takes a long time to install MS Visual Studio 2010. #
- Eeek, my suite just took an hour to complete! #
- It's amazing to see how many services fail to work when all cookies are rejected. #
- Appearently the U's student wifi hates me today, I eventually had to connect to the guest network. #
- Facepalm…I've spent all day trying to connect to UConnect, only to remember I simply changed my password. #
- @ByranLunduke, I just tried out your beta, and it's awesome, but is there any way you can use relative layouts rather than absolute ones? #
- @BryanLunduke, I just tried out your beta, and it's awesome, but is there any way you can use relative layouts rather than absolute ones? #
- Finally a good way to prototype android applications: http://lunduke.com/?p=1474 Props to @BryanLunduke #
- @ChrisLAS When I started programming for android I found that setting up the SDK was the hardest part,what did you (a non-programmer) think? in reply to ChrisLAS #
- Does anyone know if I can get noscript to not pop up when a website is trying to run google-analytics? It's getting quite annoying. #
- Google boss warns on social media http://ping.fm/DCzxT #
- If I've learned anything from GSoC…NEVER use unstable APIs… #
- In case I haven't said it enough this summer…SVN you SUCK!!! #
- Logcat, you have failed me. :'( #
- For anyone who's interested, in several hours I will be suspending my facebook account do to facebooks latest 'feature'. #
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- @flowplayer, if the only difference between the full and OS versions of flowplayer is branding,what's preventing someone from getting the… #
- @flowplayer …source, and ripping out the branding, and distributing it as their own player? #
- @Sharky237 And what's with you're non usage of @? in reply to Sharky237 #
- Wow, waking up has been unusually hard this morning. #
- @AllDroid. Take as long as you need, you guys are doing great work! in reply to AllDroid #
- @ginatrapani No, try as I might, I fear someone will detect a pattern in my day, and use that against me. in reply to ginatrapani #
- I feel like I've just written enough documentation to match the amount of tweets I get in one day. #
- Oh, and what's worse, I'm still only half of the way done….and need to finish tonight, ug. :'( #
- @Sharky237 eTickle? in reply to Sharky237 #
- 6,000 later…I am done with all of the stupid documentation… /me is happy me. #
- Apparently it's a bad idea to play video games while taking care of other buisness, as your legs go numb quickly. #
- Wow, it takes a long time to install MS Visual Studio 2010. #
- Eeek, my suite just took an hour to complete! #
- It's amazing to see how many services fail to work when all cookies are rejected. #
- Appearently the U's student wifi hates me today, I eventually had to connect to the guest network. #
- Facepalm…I've spent all day trying to connect to UConnect, only to remember I simply changed my password. #
- @ByranLunduke, I just tried out your beta, and it's awesome, but is there any way you can use relative layouts rather than absolute ones? #
- @BryanLunduke, I just tried out your beta, and it's awesome, but is there any way you can use relative layouts rather than absolute ones? #
- Finally a good way to prototype android applications: http://lunduke.com/?p=1474 Props to @BryanLunduke #
- @ChrisLAS When I started programming for android I found that setting up the SDK was the hardest part,what did you (a non-programmer) think? in reply to ChrisLAS #
- Does anyone know if I can get noscript to not pop up when a website is trying to run google-analytics? It's getting quite annoying. #
- Google boss warns on social media http://ping.fm/DCzxT #
- If I've learned anything from GSoC…NEVER use unstable APIs… #
- In case I haven't said it enough this summer…SVN you SUCK!!! #
- Logcat, you have failed me. :'( #
- For anyone who's interested, in several hours I will be suspending my facebook account do to facebooks latest 'feature'. #
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- Note to self: When you write a piece of code, remember what your dependencies are…so you can build it again…slap, slap, slap. #
- Concerning my last retweets, I'm glad to know I'm not the only one saddened by Google's sudden turn to evil. :'( #
- @completeandroid But that feature's not there… (moto X). #
- @Tim_LRR I hope ad agencies reach my proffered style of ad, aka, nonexistent. in reply to Tim_LRR #
- I'm attending WordCamp Utah 2010 — http://wordcamputah2010.eventbrite.com #
- If @RootzWiki wiki wasn't so awesome, I wouldn't be doing this, but: #
- Follow @RootzWiki they haz your rootz! #
- Cringe, despite the way that sounds (to me anyway), @RootzWiki really is a great site for android power users. #
- So, with 140 followers, and 140 characters per message, I dedicate this tweet to all of you, each of you get's one character…good job,woot #
- @Sharky237 I would be happy with just a drivers licence. :'( in reply to Sharky237 #
- @Sharky237 Like Leap? Ug..eleap…I suppose it was a really easy class, and the people in it were pleasant…but engineering ethics? joy… in reply to Sharky237 #
- @Sharky237 although it's better than the second semester's syllabus (which I didn't have to take), literary/colter analysis for engineers.oO #
- . @markmilian I hope they will succeed even more than Google Books… #
- @Bugs5382 So like the article said, tabs or spaces? I prefer tabs myself,as it allows the coder to choose how much indentation he/she wants. in reply to Bugs5382 #
- Shoot me now, I spent the past five minutes trying to debug my program, and just realized I was using the -v flag, rather than the -h flag. #
- @Bugs5382 woot, I hate languages that treats tabs and white spaces differently, (I mean, how on earth are you supposed to tell and apart?) in reply to Bugs5382 #
- Wishing he could be coding right now…but currently stuck documenting code. #
- Wishing the android NDK was as well documented as the SDK. #
- RT @Androlute All Your Rootz Belongs To Him: Interview With @b16a2smith – http://bit.ly/aqLmQO #
- @ginatrapani Understanding, not, am, you, I. (Sorry) in reply to ginatrapani #
- Woot…I finally started making modifications to code using the android NDK… /me is happy. #
- Oh, I also found this, for anyone interested in porting games to android: http://ping.fm/ttKnP #
- people…please learn how orders of magnitude work…it's NOT LINEAR!!! #
- And what I mean of that is…X users, don't even think about cracking a 2048 bit code anytime soon. #
- @BryanLunduke @ChrisLAS, since you're looking for Linux news: http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/spin-your-own-debian-live-studio #
- . @petersagal Ouch…sorry, I hope you feel better. #
- RT: @LinuxLine UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity. #
- If only it was possible to make the text in the default twitter client bigger. #
- RT @linksalpha Resolved: Programming is Hard Work http://f.ast.ly/Bbvyg #
- @jonizaak Wow…sudden onset of foursquare posts… in reply to jonizaak #
- Poor graphicall, it appears to have been infested with mallware. #
- Holy crap what happened to the 140 character limit?: https://twitter.com/sskhybrid/status/21148452562 #
- (Also, for those of you that saw that tweet…sorry about that…didn't realize it would take up *that* much space…) #
- I have decided that compiling things takes way to long… #
- Darn it…even though the compilation worked….I got nothing. #
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Mobile Updates?
Aug 13
Hello few readers who actually read this blag. I was sitting with my Droid X on the train today when I realized that I could be spending this time writing a blag post. Now, these blag posts would need to be much shorter, but they would happen more frequently. So, what is your opinion? Should I wait until I have the time to write a longer post, or should I write shorter posts when I think of them on the go? Or should I write said shorter posts in a separate blag? Thank you for your comments.
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- Eek I just inadvertently downloaded the entire android source repository there goes two gigabytes. #
- It's official, blender hates me… Stupid svn merges. #
- @BryanLunduke @ChrisLAS The Android Action Show (AAS)? How would you pronounce that? You could start up the Action Show Series Phone 7 #
- @ChrisLAS Yes…that is an awesome name. in reply to ChrisLAS #
- Yes, I agree 150% http://is.gd/e0ytA #
- @ChrisLAS @JBJeremy, Just watched yesterdays jb@night, the android permissions are declared by the developer, not google. #
- RT @Sharky237: Dear Body: YOU SUCK! First you want to go to sleep, but then you prevent me from attaining said sleep…. AVADA KEDAVRA! #
- Joy…it appears that my mother believes that if the majority isn't 'right', than God will destroy the Earth. #
- What's really weird is that she claims it's proven in the BoM, yet most scriptures (of several religions)I've seen say the exact opposite… #
- Today I will be spending most of the day porting a bunch of blender 2.4x python scripts to 2.5x…sigh. #
- Also, I'm a bit nervous about getting my GSoC project done on time…4 more days to go. #
- @Bugs5382 What was it before it was bricked? in reply to Bugs5382 #
- @Tim_LRR Link? (Sorry, I've never played it. ). in reply to Tim_LRR #
- @Tim_LRR @Admiral_Potato9 is a cow…I think? #
- The stupidity of people of facebook never ceases to amaze me…than again, I've also seen dump stuff on twitter. @leos_scale anyone? #
- Watch, I probably just mixed up than and then, again… #
- My X is great for some things…reading on bus etc…but not so much when i'm trying to take care of other 'buisness'. #
- Note to myself in the far future: Unless you're reading this for some study, get up, and do something amazing… #
- Oh, and this also applies to everyone else reading this to. #
- Joy, python's hash()method for strings fails. #
- (public) note to self: Don't store temporary data in an unsaved document in case your system randomly restarts x, grr… #
- RT @jeffjarvis: Life's a beta. So's Twitter. #
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All over the web, Apple fanboys (aka, ‘tech bloggers’), have been saying that the future of computing is in mobile devices, and that desktop computers are just a utility. While I admit that that laptops seem to have more functionality to desktops (although to be fair, it may just seem that way to me as I’m a student, a need a mobile computer while I’m on campus), desktops are in no way going to fade out of use. Not only is it much easier to upgrade desktop computers, and are more powerful than mobile computers, but desktop computers are also more convenient to use in situations where constant movement is not required, allowing for greater productivity.
For example, try typing up this blog post on a desktop or laptop, now try typing it up on your ipad…sure, lug around that bluetooth keyboard if you like, but at that point, you have another device to lug around, and it becomes easier to manage a laptop (with the obvious exception of battery life). Not only will computer scientists, engineers, and hobbyists/gamers be using desktops in the near future, but other trades such as writing, accounting, film/cgi, and many others.
Some have said that computers have become stagnate with little to no innovation. This is simply untrue. While the amount of power in a single core has maxed out, and the number of cores in an architecture is slowing, the amount of heat being generated by these computers (and thus by correlation the amount of math they are doing), is still growing exponentially. Remember people, there’s more to computing that GHz/Cores/Piping/RISC/etc. Has it gotten less sexy? Yes, I will admit that, but remember that ‘sexy’ is not a measure of usage, but more a meter of novelty. Most of the improvements in computers are not in the outside appearance, but in its internals. Furthermore, ‘sexy’ can also be directly correlated to the amount of marketing a company has put into it’s products, and as we know, Apple Inc. puts in a tremendous amount of marketing. But to some people, desktop computers are still ‘sexy’.
This doesn’t mean that mobile computing doesn’t have its place. I recently bought a droid x (on opening day actually), and I love it. I love the size (although I wish it was a bit bigger), I love the speed, I love it’s power. However, I don’t use it as a productivity device (yet, I’m working on getting it set up as a tablet in conjunction with my computer), I use it as a portable media player for places like on the bus and the train, which I spend a lot of time on. I use it for games, but most of the games I play can run on very old hardware anyway, as well as video/audio, and web browsing/email. I do admittedly use it for some content creation though, for example the picture in this post is a scaled down version of a picture I took with it. I also enjoy hearing people talking about mobile computing too.
So, in conclusion, while mobile devices are growing, and can be rather interesting, there is still much innovation going on in the desktop/non-cloud-computing arena. As such, it would be much more enjoyable to listen to podcast/read blogs that talk about that, rather than the annoying amount of ‘cloud’ news that is produced now days. As such, if anyone wants to show of their websites/products that are not cloud based in the comments, I would be very appreciative of that, and may even give my opinion of it in a future post.
