poker: Sometimes you encounter a hand where you’re up against a single player and you both have great reads on each other and it comes down to luck or a kicker. I was at the final table of a no-limit holdem tournament Saturday with my friend, Ryan. He was getting pretty low on [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
At work I’ve been working on prototyping the new architecture for our edge server management system. We want to move away from a strictly PHP/MySQL architecture to a more flexible one that allows us to interface from native graphical clients, the web, command-line, etc. So I wrote a simple class representing user management [...]
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What will Microsoft open source next? Perhaps the .NET CLR?
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I finally got my copy of Mono: A Developer’s Notebook today. It shipped over a week ago and I had been wondering why it hadn’t arrived. Today I checked the tracking information which claimed it had been delivered two days ago…which of course made me worried that somehow it had been stolen off [...]
As Edd mentioned in his brilliant entry, IronPython was released as open source. Perhaps just as interesting is the fact that it seems that Jim Hugunin will be working at Microsoft:
“His charter: to work towards a production-ready IronPython, and more broadly to improve the state-of-the-art of dynamic languages on the CLR. The open source [...]
WoodPusher 0.1.1 is now released. Mostly a bug fix release and I’m slowly cleaning up the code and trying to make it more usable as an ICS client. One cool thing about this release is that it works with chessd. I got tired of annoying people on FICS with my testing, so [...]
WoodPusher 0.1 was released tonight. This is an initial public release and is only intended for developers interested in contributing.
Update: Added an entry to GnomeFiles
