May 8th, 2010
If you’re a Java programmer developing on the iPhone platform, you’ve probably wondered about how to set constants in your programs. Undoubtedly, you have have come across the #define preprocessor macro, and maybe a few other methods, but I’m going to show you my approach to this problem using the singleton design pattern.
May 10th, 2009
Many people are surprised to hear me say that I don’t think OS X has a well-designed GUI. As one of my professors puts it (I paraphrase):
Criticism is good. Criticism leads to change. Criticism makes things better.
In this post, I will try to do my part in making OS X better. The following [...]
Mar 23rd, 2009
BootCamp makes users reinstall OS X or buy software that shouldn’t be needed, in order to load another operating system on Apple hardware. My frustration with Apple products — particularly with OS X — is slowly but surely raising my blood pressure to levels I have never seen during my marriage to Windows.
Mar 14th, 2009
I downloaded a Ubuntu 8.10 VMPlanet.net image with MySQL server, but the root password was set to something other than the standard vmplanet.net password. Logging in without a password or username didn’t give me enough permissions to set my own users and change passwords. Here is the solution for this problem (thanks Keystone [...]
Jul 3rd, 2008
For some reason, I could not get .htaccess files to work on my system for the longest time. I’ve since upgraded to Leopard, and I eventually just gave up on it (I could do that, since I’m only running a development environment).
Anyway, the solution depends on which version you’re running:
For Tiger, edit /private/etc/httpd.conf AND [...]
Mar 21st, 2008
To lessen the pain, here’s a tutorial on how to install gnuplot with Octave on OS X:
http://island94.org/setting-octave-and-gnuplot-osx
[EDIT: This method may be obsolete now]
Feb 8th, 2008
I was recently tasked with supporting multiple languages in a PHP script. I found an article on about.com that was a good starting point. The author basically suggested creating associative arrays with different translations:
(P.S. I modified his code just a little to better conform to PHP 5 standards)
Jan 18th, 2008
I came across an interesting problem: I needed to create priorities for records in a database so that they would be able to be displayed in a particular order. Moreover, I needed to find a way to reorder the priorities on the fly. My first instinct was for each record to have its [...]
Jan 17th, 2008
After four months of using OS X, I still do not feel comfortable with it. Here’s why.
Dec 11th, 2007
Not really a KNN Classifier, as much as a mass, N-dimension euclidean distance calculator.
Input is a Matrix MAT of all the points to test against (row-based), and a Vector X the point to test against. Output is a Nx1 matrix V of all the distances between X and each row of the Matrix (in [...]