Category Archives: ChangingMedia
How the Internet Changed Space Exploration
Many little boys dream of going to space, watching the earth from up there and floating around in zero gravity. Thanks to the Internet, it is now possible to get closer to their dream than ever before. In a case of brilliant marketing, or just plain too much money, NASA is really in the loop [...]
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Parsing Bank Statements in Python
A few weeks ago, I mentioned my new way of tracking my budget and also figured that there’s one gaping hole: importing bank statements. This is part 1, where I create a simple parser for bank statements provided by my bank in CSV format.
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New in Media Summer 2010: YouTube LeanBack, Moonbase Alpha, Flash for Money, JavaScript Everywhere
Today, I have a number of news items that have caught my attention over the last month: YouTube finally evolves out of the computer room, NASA uses yet more tricks to get us excited about their missions, making money with Flash and JavaScript everywhere (this last one is for techies). It’s just a small sampling [...]
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First WordPress 3.0 Post
You might not notice it, but this is the first post written on the 3.0 version of WordPress. The fact that you’re not noticing, is testimony for how smooth the upgrade went. Obviously I didn’t upgrade to keep the exact same blog. There are some big enhancements that will enable a bunch of ideas I’ve [...]
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The Best Way to Learn a Programming Language
… is to write a program. So in my quest to study Python, I was looking for something to create. Enter JayIsGames’s Casual Gameplay Design Competition, previously mentioned and much loved. Sadly they only allow games that run in a browser, but that’s not going to hold me back. I’m going to jump that hurdle [...]
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Drinking the Python Kool-Aid
Ok, ok, the title is hyperbole to draw your attention. I’m not quite ready yet to throw out Java, JavaScript, ActionScript and the other languages I write about on this blog. But what I can say, I’m charmed. My very first babysteps into the Python language have convinced me that it’s certainly worth pursuing.
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Pay What You Want is the New Free
The Humble Indie Bundle is the latest example of a growing trend: You’re free to set your own price. The Humble Indie Bundle contains 5 great indie games that would usually retail for about $80, but you get to choose your own price. Looking at the current statistics, the average is way below that price.
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We Rule, Strategy Game Reduction
Until last weekend, I had been ignoring the latest gaming craze. Namely social strategy games, most known are the Facebook variants, Farmville and Mafia Wars. Since I try to stay up-to-date on what’s happening in the multimedia web world, it was about time I dove into the genre to figure it out. I picked We [...]
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KeePass & Dropbox, Teaming Up For Secure And Safe Passwords
Ever since I started using the Internet, sites have been asking me to register and log in. Usually I’d have a few secure passwords for sites that really mattered and a number of throwaway passwords that I reused on several different sites where I didn’t really care too much about security. Those sets of passwords [...]
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How a Little Money Saves a Lot of Time: 3 Examples