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Josh Gordon's links
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Some links. from around the web. Please note that this page is still in progress. Git and other Version Control Systems (pdf). This is a presentation that I gave for my Scripting Languages class at UMBC. I decided that Version Control systems are an integral part of most programming jobs, and that the average student doesn't really understand their usefulness. I was unhappy with the default binary watchface that came with the pebble, so I changed a little bit around and now it's better.
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Josh Gordon
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Josh Gordon Nerdy CS Major gone Programmer. Hello, I'm Josh. I'm not your average fresh-out-of-school computer programmer. As you patiently waited for this page to load, my VPS worked hard using technologies such as Markdown and PHP to render this page for you. The text that you are reading here is written in Markdown, and converted to HTML in real time through a PHP.
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What color is it?
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What color is it? I saw What colour Is It. Online the other day, and wasn't quite happy with the way it slapped hours minutes and seconds together to form a color, so I grabbed the code (which is all Javascript done on the client side, so not really that hard to grab) and fixed it. Each hex character represents 4 bits, so a 6 character (8 bits/channel) hex value has 24 bits. I decided to use as much of this as I could. Here's how it broke down:. 5 bits for Day, which gives me 0-31. I'm cool with that.
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The robots are taking over. They'll most likely kill us in the morning...
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The robots are taking over. They'll most likely kill us in the morning. Almost two months ago now, I wrote about my Relaybox. I wrote then that I started writing about my light controls, and then decided to write on that. This is the post on the light controls. I started with what I had. A bunch of Cat5e cable and a couple of single pole switches. I made an amazon order for 2 project boxes. And about 15 buttons. I drilled the holes for the buttons in the boxes, and put the buttons in. Since I built all t...
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Sin; integrated into culture
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Sin; integrated into culture. As many of you know, I don't blog much. It's just that these thoughts have been swirling around in my head for most of the afternoon, and I'd like to get them out there. (and a single facebook status probably isn't long or verbose enough to say what I want.). I am conflicted inside. On one hand, we are not judges of other people (remember, we are all sinful as they are, our sins are just less visibile externally, and therefore more dangerous! What other sins do we see as "no...
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Mindset of eternity
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If you know me at all, you know I'm a HUGE. Switchfoot fan. By far, though, my favorite song is the one that, as Jon Foreman puts it (paraphrasing, it's been nearly a year since I saw them last. Feeling the withdrawl. ok, maybe not) "talks about the place with no more tears, no more pain, and no more suffereing.". Maybe I'd better start doing meta-meta-journaling. Then again, I suppose that's what this paragraph is. Time to move onto meta-meta-meta-journaling. Until I die I'll sing these songs. I want to...
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Sermon Archive
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I got fed up with the appearance of my Church's sermon archive (which was just an FTP site - not very pretty or user friendly.), so I. Wrote up a more elegant frontend. It's a single file webpage, which just reads the directory structures and files off the disk and renders pages on the fly. All things considered, it's darned fast. (That's one of the great things about Digital Ocean's. A live demo is available here. And you can see my code on github. What color is it? The beginning of the end.
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The beginning of the end...
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The beginning of the end. Last Thursday night was my last Intervarsity Large group as an undergraduate (and most likely as a student altogether - i.e. not planning on Grad School). It still doesn't feel quite real yet, and it's going to be weird when the spring semester starts and everyone else goes back to school while I'm off at work. I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed in all the world. - Romans 1:8. I got fed up with the appearance of my Church's sermo...