A story of self-discovery, and a look back on the year in personal development along this winding career track. Something small happened today that subtly shook me into a view of how far I have come.

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Okay, so today I finished an arduous task that, were it not for the learning curves and stupidness that I encountered, probably boiled down to about two hours of work. Instead, it took me about 15I now have a server that is running CentOS 5.2, that hosts a VMWare image that is also running CentOS 5.2. This is so we can take the VM image and drop ( Read more... )

So I finally made the jump. I now know how to make rudimentary electronics and programmable microcontrolers do what I want them too.

Right now I have an ATMEGA48P AVR wired up to a single LED that is happily blinking on and off at one-second intervals. While that seems pretty trivial, there's a whole bunch of bits and pieces that need to be ( Read more... )

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I managed to finally get the newly refactored version of Enki into DDL’s SVN last night.

• Enki2 SVN
• Enki EBNF Parser and Lexer Definitions for Enki2
• Generated D Parser and Lexer for Enki2

To those wondering “WTF is Enki”, it is a parser generator that uses EBNF file as input. It ( Read more... )

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This looks very promising.

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As some of you may be aware, I’ve dusted off Tracforums in preparation for the next rendition of dsource.org. So far, things have moved smoothly, with each passing day yielding fewer bugs and more complete features. There are a few tiny interface points that I’m hoping to ( Read more... )

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After a not-so-great pass at getting Code::Blocks installed on my laptop, I decided it was time to upgrade from Eft to Gibbon. This turned out to be a huge exercise in frustration as the installer kept “freezing” at odd intervals throughout the install process.

I also made my ( Read more... )

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I decided to throw a little bit of effort into breathing a little more life into my laptop, in favor of being able to code in different surroundings. In the end, I plan on adding wireless support, a new battery, extra ram and possibly SSD storage (most likely CompactFlash ( Read more... )