In learning a new programming language, I will often make a one-off program to explore the language and get real-life experience in using it. With Perl, I created a programmatic version of a game I play with my kids as… Read More »Perl Practice
My friend Dave (K1ZH) came over today and helped me fix up my 6 meter FM Genave radio to work with a tone generator on the local repeater. We studied the schematics and suffered through a power supply failure but… Read More »6 Meter Mobile
Many geeks take pride in their hardware and will boast about it without prompting. Some of us are less boastful and are hard pressed to say exactly what we are running. I’m definitely in the later category. The only time… Read More »Hardware
I’m getting back into Perl again, for a web site rewrite at work using Apache’s mod-perl. Many folks have learned Perl from the O’Reilly book, Learning Perl by Schwartz and Phoenix. About all I remember from it was that it… Read More »The Lama Book
I downloaded the preview of Microsoft Shell, aka Monad. One of the reasons I use Linux as my primary OS has always been the functionality of the shell. I won’t bore you with all the details, suffice it to say,… Read More »Shell Game
There is a really interesting article here – Does Visual Studio Rot The Mind? by a long time Windows programmer named Charles Petzoid, the author of Programming Windows. In the article he questions the reliance of Windows programmers on the… Read More »Hand Coding
NASA has released an overview of their next space ship. How We’ll Get Back to the Moon Looks like they are using Shuttle solid rocket boosters and shuttle main engines to design two rockets, a heavy lift cargo rocket and… Read More »Back to the future – rockets.
Programmers are just like any tradesman. We have several tools in our tool box that we use to make our lives easier. Over the next few blog entires, I will be exploring some of the tools programmers have in their… Read More »Tools of the trade
I’m a parent of pre-school age children. I know all about diversions. I can redirect the attentions of my children at the drop of a hat to discourage deviant behavior. It beats yelling at them and it goes unnoticed by… Read More »Diversion Tactics
Welcome to my first WordPress blog. I’m not sure if I want to keep this, so don’t expect much from it over the coming days and weeks. 73, W0PHT