GeoGebra is an awesome program. I plan on doing something with stuff I am working on, but just to give a taste: Using GeoGebra, one can setup very easily a quadratic approximation to a function at a point. Then drag the point on the function showing how the quadratic approximation changes. In particular, through an [...]
I have been sitting here doing some work. I have a lecture to give in two days and fifty slides to write. So instead of that, I start working on a practice test and think about writing the actual test and maybe do the other lectures. There is something about creative minds and lacking discipline. [...]
I am sitting here trying to avoid doing my work (?!!?!) and the thought occurred to me of the scene in the original Star Wars in which Vader is talking with some officers and one of them says something about being an adherent to an old religion. I feel that the command line and programming [...]
In this chapter, Russell talks about how he might be a bastard. He talks about his cold ruthlessness with people who are not performing well, including firing a 12-year old actress who just wasn’t good enough. He also talks about how he had a one-night stand (years ago) and left at 5AM to do some [...]
Tagged The Writer's Tale, writer's taleAs I read more (just through chapter 2), I am amazed how it speaks to me. He talks about going through days of just devoted to writing without any writing. The ideas are there and I can’t see any reason why he does not proceed, but he does not. In the same way, I find [...]
Reading A Writer’s Tale by Russell Davies. In it he talks about making choices and lots of ideas floating. And about how the structure that is purported by others such as keys to character development, is not his style. It got me wondering about teaching and programming. Ideas are swirling around in my head all [...]
I got my iPad yesterday. I am typing on it now. It is nice. I look forward to using it daily to consume media. But I think creating is not yet convenient. Though it can certainly be done. I think in the world of learning, this could be huge. And I mean more than just [...]
Today I bought an iPad. Cost: 666 Ominous? Yes. Costly? Yes. Aweomse? Oh yeah. I can’t wait to get it. Not only for development purposes, but just the idea of being able to consume media (even simple books) easily and beautifully. My 27’’ iMac (scarMac) has been amazing to have and use. And I think [...]
Technologies of use: iPhone Resources GoogleApps cocos2d An iPhone 2D game engine. Pretty sweet so far.Useful resources (pre 0.9): cocos2d home, tutorials: (start/help, rocks), class overview jQuery DTerm This a MacOSX program that opens a terminal command line at the location. It uses cmd-shift-return to open, esc to close. It is great for doing something [...]
Tagged iPhoneWorking on learning iPhone programming (Cocoa), Google App Engine (scalable backend web apps), Python (goes with App and traditional server), html, css, jquery. Mastering all of these technologies should give a full toolkit for developing all of the web apps one needs. Dashcode can also be useful for quick webpage production. The idea is that [...]