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Buckblog: Mazes for Programmers: Beta!
http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2015/2/4/mazes-for-programmers-beta.html
Maze book for programmers! Algorithms, circle mazes, hex grids, masking, weaving, braiding, 3D and 4D grids, spheres, and more! Assorted ramblings by Jamis Buck. Mazes for Programmers: Beta! Mdash; The author announces the beta availability of his new book, "Mazes for Programmers", and invites the reader to participate in its completion by offering feedback, corrections, and suggestions — 2-minute read. Is out in beta and is available for purchase! That’s where you come in. More clearly in the book. (.
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Buckblog: Category: life
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Maze book for programmers! Algorithms, circle mazes, hex grids, masking, weaving, braiding, 3D and 4D grids, spheres, and more! Assorted ramblings by Jamis Buck. Being a Good Neighbor. Mdash; Some reflections on what it means to be a "good neighbor" — 6-minute read. Hanging Out a Shingle. Mdash; Our hero's plans change, and his journey takes an unexpected turn. — 1-minute read. Getting Back in the Pool. Mdash; A new member of the Buck family is introduced — 1-minute read. 20 May 2006 — 1-minute read.
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Buckblog: Category: under the hood
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Maze book for programmers! Algorithms, circle mazes, hex grids, masking, weaving, braiding, 3D and 4D grids, spheres, and more! Assorted ramblings by Jamis Buck. A Better Recursive Division Algorithm. Maze Generation: More weave mazes. Mdash; A technique is demonstrated, giving finer configuration of weave density in random mazes, courtesy of Kruskal's algorithm — 7-minute read. Maze Generation: Weave mazes. Weave Mazes: Your Take? Maze Generation: Algorithm Recap. Maze Generation: Sidewinder algorithm.
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Buckblog: Category: reviews
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Maze book for programmers! Algorithms, circle mazes, hex grids, masking, weaving, braiding, 3D and 4D grids, spheres, and more! Assorted ramblings by Jamis Buck. Mdash; The second Capistrano tutorial session started rocky, but finished well — 1-minute read. Advanced Rails Recipes and Capistrano. Mdash; Praise for "Mike Clark's Advanced Rails Recipes" book — 1-minute read. Mdash; The author reviews his experiences at Ostrava on Rails in the Czech Republic — 3-minute read. 15 May 2005 — 3-minute read.
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Buckblog: Category: odds & ends
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Maze book for programmers! Algorithms, circle mazes, hex grids, masking, weaving, braiding, 3D and 4D grids, spheres, and more! Assorted ramblings by Jamis Buck. Jamis and Marcel at MountainWest RubyConf 2007. Mdash; Announcing the video of a presentation in which the author and Marcel Molina co-delivered a live code review — 1-minute read. Kestrel" is taken.and how! Mdash; On the difficulty of naming things, and the absurdity of patents with over-applied buzzwords — 1-minute read. The Horror of Blimps.
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Buckblog: Task Tracking for Neurochemical Brains
http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2015/3/17/task-tracking-for-neurochemical-brains.html
Maze book for programmers! Algorithms, circle mazes, hex grids, masking, weaving, braiding, 3D and 4D grids, spheres, and more! Assorted ramblings by Jamis Buck. Task Tracking for Neurochemical Brains. Mdash; Presenting a simple (and perhaps very unoriginal) technique for keeping track of a list of tasks in the face of interruption and exploration — 4-minute read. The problem is this: with multiple tasks in the air at once, how do you keep track of where you’re at on each of them? Suffices for me.) T...
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Buckblog: Category: spotlight
http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/spotlight
Maze book for programmers! Algorithms, circle mazes, hex grids, masking, weaving, braiding, 3D and 4D grids, spheres, and more! Assorted ramblings by Jamis Buck. Mdash; The under-appreciated Object#returning method is presented, with examples of how it is particularly useful — 2-minute read. Introducing the Capistrano Shell. Mdash; A new Capistrano extension is introduced, allowing commands to be run interactively and in parallel on multiple servers at once — 5-minute read. Web services, Rails-style.
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Buckblog: Writing a Klondike Puzzle Solver
http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2015/8/4/writing-a-klondike-puzzle-solver.html
Maze book for programmers! Algorithms, circle mazes, hex grids, masking, weaving, braiding, 3D and 4D grids, spheres, and more! Assorted ramblings by Jamis Buck. Writing a Klondike Puzzle Solver. Mdash; In which the author presents a Ruby program that solves Sam Lloyd's famous "Back from the Klondike" puzzle — 9-minute read. Back from the Klondike. Is a puzzle invented by Sam Lloyd. And first published in 1898. It looks like this:. It’s a kind of maze, then, isn’t it? I describe this very technique in my...
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Buckblog: Experimenting with L-Systems
http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2015/5/7/experimenting-with-l-systems.html
Maze book for programmers! Algorithms, circle mazes, hex grids, masking, weaving, braiding, 3D and 4D grids, spheres, and more! Assorted ramblings by Jamis Buck. Mdash; An overview of L-system fractals, with a simple implementation in Ruby. An argument is given in favor of exploration, experimentation, and play. — 5-minute read. With my book out of the way, I’ve found myself with a bit more time to experiment, explore, and. It’s been a long time! I feel like I’ve almost forgotten how. I won’t go into the...
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Buckblog: Category: redirect
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Maze book for programmers! Algorithms, circle mazes, hex grids, masking, weaving, braiding, 3D and 4D grids, spheres, and more! Assorted ramblings by Jamis Buck. Disrupting Your Comfort Zone. Mdash; The value of doing difficult things — 1-minute read. Mdash; A recent article by the author about seeing past our "failure filters" — 1-minute read. Mdash; Read the author's answers to the question "How to become a successful Rubyist" — 1-minute read. Recovering from Enterprise" video available. This work is l...
