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Roller Derby Nation Blog: Thor's Hammer v1.5.4 - Roller Derby Scoreboard

Thu, 17 May 2012 02:18:16 -0400

Roller Derby Nation Blog: Thor's Hammer v1.5.4 - Roller Derby Scoreboard:

Its only been 7 days since our last release of Thor’s Hammer and here we are again with the next release.

We’ve added a few cool things, so lets dive right in.

We organized the layout a bit more putting things into Tabs and grouping specific features. The Team Manager also contains the logo…

Roller Derby Nation Blog: Thor's Hammer v1.5.3 - Roller Derby Scoreboard

Thu, 17 May 2012 00:47:20 -0400

Roller Derby Nation Blog: Thor's Hammer v1.5.3 - Roller Derby Scoreboard:

rdnation:

We are excited to announce that we just released version 1.5.3 of our Roller Derby Scoreboard.

We are proud to add the next feature into the scoreboard.

You can download the scoreboard here.

A Dynamic Way to Show Introductions For Skaters and their Teams.

Intro: We had a request to have…

I feel like John Nash out of a beautiful mind. 1 year older and still nothing to say for my self. ...

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 22:37:57 -0400

I feel like John Nash out of a beautiful mind. 1 year older and still
nothing to say for my self. I’ve accomplished nothing outstanding in life
for humanity. Where is my life headed, I may never know. I hope that one
day, my life makes a difference when I am so lost right now.

danielhope: 9 year old Caine sets up an arcade in his father’s...

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 17:45:44 -0400

danielhope:

9 year old Caine sets up an arcade in his father’s used car parts store in East L.A., using only cardboard boxes his dad had lying around and a ton of ingenuity. Watch his dreams come true when this filmmaker sets up a flash mob to come and play.

Just watching this may make you a better person.

$82,000 has already been raised for Caine’s scholarship fund!

mark[sweep]: The Beer Game -or- Why Apple Can't Build iPads in the US

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 14:53:36 -0400

mark[sweep]: The Beer Game -or- Why Apple Can't Build iPads in the US:

marksweep:

When President Obama asked Steve Jobs what it would take to make iPhones in the United States, the late Apple co-founder supposedly quipped: “Those jobs aren’t coming back.”

When I read this, it reminded me of something my dad presented to us as kids a long time ago- The Beer Game.

My dad…

Developer Income Report #4

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 23:03:49 -0500

Developer Income Report #4:

The Intro:

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all my readers!

This month was even better and I think it has something to do with these reports. So what should I do except keep writing them.

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I Use Bing to Search, Google to Search Hard

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 11:00:44 -0500

I Use Bing to Search, Google to Search Hard:

There comes a point in my life where I just love free stuff. Bills are hard, employment sucks at times, but free stuff is always great.

I am a coder by day and a coder by night. I run into hard…

In Looking for a public Web Processing Service (WPS)

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 13:07:41 -0500

In Looking for a public Web Processing Service (WPS):

I was looking for some public WPS’s to run some tests against. Well, my searches didn’t pull up much in Google or Bing until I got more detailed, so for all the world to see here are some that I…

Developer Income Report #3

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:29:11 -0500

Developer Income Report #3:

The Intro:

Its been a better month than usual for a few reasons. While its nothing to write home about, my income over time has been getting better. I think these reports tend to help as well…

ESRI WKID (Well Known ID) List of Units

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 06:41:41 -0500

ESRI WKID (Well Known ID) List of Units:

I looked long and hard for the Well known Ids from ESRI for Geospatial Units. So I decided to post them here incase I need them again.

Value	Description
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Multi-Threading with C# and a Website

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 04:43:56 -0500

Multi-Threading with C# and a Website:

Let me tell you my experience.

I have a website at http://www.utopiapimp.com that gets hit well over 1 Million times a day. Thats 11 hits every Second. Utopiapimp works on being a Live Stock…

Draw a Circle Graphic with ESRI Android SDK

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 19:59:42 -0500

Draw a Circle Graphic with ESRI Android SDK:

I wrote this code a while back. The requirement was to have a user draw a circle with the ESRI Android SDK. Well, their Android SDK doesn’t currently support drawing circles. It draws all other…

java.lang.RuntimeException: Stub! On With JUnit and Android

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:11:40 -0400

java.lang.RuntimeException: Stub! On With JUnit and Android:

Running into another Error I figured I would blog about.

So im getting a Stub Error while trying to JUnit test a library I built with some Android code inside of it. The Error is as follows:

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Developer Income Report #2

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 12:30:40 -0400

Developer Income Report #2:

The Intro:

Starting off with my first report, well here now is my second report.

Ive been developing web apps since 2007 and while modest income has come from them, I decided to focus solely on…

Developer Income Report #1

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 12:46:23 -0400

Developer Income Report #1:

The Intro:

I decided that I need to start writing my income out to both the world and for my self following this the reports posted here. So A little intro. Ive been developing web apps since…

Roller Derby Penalty Timer for Android!

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 08:58:37 -0400

Roller Derby Penalty Timer for Android! :

afro-ec-centric:

It’s about time.

Fucking Big Company Rules

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 00:05:19 -0400

Fucking Big Company Rules:

So I work at a large company, with well over 75,000 people. Its extremely large and the bureaucracy sucks.

A developer and I built this state of the art product on the Android phone. It can be…

"Give me strife and suffering. And once I have grown stronger, tempered, hardened by the strife, give..."

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 13:37:23 -0400

“Give me strife and suffering. And once I have grown stronger, tempered, hardened by the strife, give me MORE.”

"Imagine a school with children that can read and write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a..."

Tue, 03 May 2011 17:11:10 -0400

“Imagine a school with children that can read and write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.”

"When I was 5 years old my mom told me that happiness is the key to life. When I went to school, they..."

Fri, 08 Apr 2011 14:44:59 -0400

“When I was 5 years old my mom told me that happiness is the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didnt understand the assignment. I told them they didnt understand life.”