I just ran into my files from one of the first JaredSIM sub-projects. It was my senior design project with the goal of making a robot that would beat the real Jared at air hockey. Naturally I called it Jared.hockey. A lot of people unfamiliar with the current state of robotics might be unimpressed by [...]
Archive for the ‘thingsilearned’ Category
20 Jun
JaredSIM – The Adventure
I get asked all the time about why I call all of my projects Jared.[project_name], what thingsilearned is about, and why we chose to call our company JaredSIM. The only way to explain it is to explain Jared, and the whole story, or adventure as I like to call it of JaredSIM. I thought I’d [...]
19 Jun
California – Lets go!
At 7:30 pm exactly 1 week ago today Priyesh, Vu and I packed up and left for the airport. At 9:50 our plane departed and at 11:50pm we landed in San Francisco California ready to conquer the world that lay ahead of us! … By 12:15 Priyesh and I were lost somewhere in the city [...]
11 Jun
Batch .jpg Image Resizer
Last night I was looking all over for a batch image resizer. I needed to make a folder full of images smaller and didn’t want to open Gimp for each one. I downloaded 2 that weren’t what I wanted and just as I was about to get really frustrated I realized, hey, I’ve taken two [...]
10 Jun
Food for Thought & Thought about Food
For ages, cooking food has been considered to be an art perfected by few, and the rest of the people, just follow their footsteps. It has never before been seen as an experience. Why is it that hardly anyone goes into the kitchen and everytime, just try dfferent combinations and techniques with the same available [...]
10 Jun
On making business cards with Photoshop
Vu here. Since signing onto this project, I’ve had to figure out a thing or two about the program I’d be using for the artwork, namely, Photoshop. (It’s true that I’ve only produced one or two works so far using the program. I also feel that “winging it” is the sine qua non of a [...]
10 Jun
XML Syntax on Emacs
My Emacs editor unfortunately doesn’t know that I’m developing for Zope/Plone and that .zcml and .pt files are a form of XML. I had to look up how to let it know so I could get some syntax highlighting and smart tabbing. Without those, XML is really annoying. This time ThaiOpenSource.com had the solution with [...]
7 Jun
OS X Terminal – Prompt Format
As I’ve alluded to previously I like to customize my terminal as I spend plenty of time in it. I typically go with an old school green on black, though sometimes I go with a simple black on white depending on my mood. A lot of terminal settings unfortunately aren’t customizable from the preferences. One [...]
4 Jun
Plone Blogging
Evolution is a journey which everything goes through. Yep everything. In fact I sometimes feel it would be much better to be in the shoes of a software framework instead of being a human when it comes to adventure and changing to adapt with the surrounding environment. I would like to just talk a little [...]
29 May
CImgLib – A Simple Image Class for PNG Files.
I wrote a bit about it before but while working on the Seperation of Reflections project I needed a simple C++ image library. I experimented with several over a few hours, most had just way too much stuff for me to quickly dive into so I ended up writing my own small image API. All [...]
