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Henry CipollaTech, gaming, motorsports, and whatever else |
LinksHere is a heartwarming story about a Swedish professor who had his hope for humanity restored when a thief sent him a USB stick containing the contents of his laptop hard drive which had been stolen a week before. The professor had everything on that laptop, saying: “It is my life. I have documented everything [...]
This past week I found myself writing code that had to submit some data to a webservice via an HTTP POST request. Not a particularly difficult task but it was on a platform I didn’t have much experience with and I wasn’t sure if I had formed the packet properly. In order to validate my [...]
Unless you are a pretty massive geek, you probably don’t care about ttyrec players. With the close of the 2010 Dungeon Crawl Tournament I wanted to review some of the games by the better players was not at all surprised to find the lack of a native ttyrec player on OS X. Luckily, it is [...]
We just finished a two part blog post covering the reasons why the various smartphone platforms make sense to develop for from both a technology and business perspective. We have a chart showing the user base and store size of each platform which I think is pretty cool. Check it out: http://www.localytics.com/blog/post/smartphone-os-wars-what-platforms-to-develop-for-part-i/
Playing Doom on my G1 got me interested in what the speed run community has done with the game. I did some quick searching and the best video I could find is this completion of Doom 2 in 17 minutes. I don’t have any other details, such as what system they are on but from [...]
At BarcampBoston today I realized I needed a URL that points to me that isn’t just my company website. With this as my inspiration I finally sat down and updated my site to have recent information (such as a link to the startup I’ve been talking about for the last year). If you missed it [...]
I have written a couple of useful posts on here, but I don’t think any are going to be as helpful as this. I was recently introduced to El Bulli a Spanish restaurant that is on the absolute bleeding edge of the really crazy field of molecular gastronomy. I can’t describe it, so just read [...]
One of the convenient things about having a blog is that whenever I come across a nifty thing online I can just write about it once here and link my friends, rather than explain it time and time again. Quick background: Super Mario World is remembered by many as one of the greatest games of [...]
