My primary work machine is a Gateway 200x notebook. The first thing I did when I got it was install Linux (currently running Fedora Core 2). Aside from the battery life, it’s a nice notebook, but quite a few things didn’t work in Linux. The wireless didn’t work even with ndiswrapper. [...]
Well some people asked for the source code for my HoldemShowdown frontend, so here it is. It’s pretty trivial as the UI was designed with glade and the real work is done by the pokenum utility that ships with poker-eval. I’ve included a pre-built binary of pokenum in the tarball, so you may [...]
I was bored last night, and so I wrote a quick hack. If you’ve ever watched Texas Holdem on TV (e.g. The World Series of Poker on ESPN), you’ve no doubt seen the percentages next to the hands that the computer generates. I find that kind of data helpful, so I wrote a [...]
On Friday night, my roommate and longtime friend, Ryan, asked Molly to marry him. She said yes. I wasn’t planning on going out that night, but when I heard the news, I had to go out to celebrate with them. We went to Felix’s and had a couple drinks. The espresso [...]
The mouths of the best poets
Speak but a few words
And then lay down
Stone cold in forgotten fields
Life goes on in this ant farm town
Cold to the lifeblood underfoot
All talk and no touch
And I just wanna be real
I just wanna be real
The colors here are monochrome
Studies in one shade of grey
The good times and the hard [...]
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Exceptions that are thrown by a .NET Web Service are sent back to the client in the fault element of the SOAP message. The nice thing is that you don’t have to worry about populating that element yourself. Exceptions are automatically serialized to a valid SOAP format and then deserialized so that the [...]
John: I was not aware that “Wood Pusher” was aggressive inline slang. Thankfully I’m the #1 google result with a skateboarding site being #2, and a definition of the chess slang “woodpusher” being #3. That is amusing, though. One thing seems universal: Wood Pusher is derogatory slang in any sport.
woodpusher noun. [...]
Friday night I went over to Ben and Lori’s place. Steve was already there carving up the delicious turkey that Lori made. In addition, she made broccoli casserole, rolls, and mashed potatoes. Steve brought the wine, and I brought a pie for dessert. After dinner, I pulled out the laptop and [...]
Got email from the author of CSBoard over the weekend. Looks like we might merge efforts. Since we’ll probably be doing a lot of rewriting/refactoring, now’s the time to speak up and/or get involved. What are the most important requirements for a chess application? Should it be cross platform or have tight [...]
