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Amazon Publishing: Because I Can

Posted by Andre Sayre in Meta-Blog on November 30, 2010

As an experiment, or an exercise in ‘because I can’, I decided to submit my blog to Amazon for automatic publishing to Kindles.  I don’t expect anyone to actually purchase it.  After all, you’re reading it right now for free, and because I wouldn’t want anyone to pay for a hastily written, rarely updated blog.

 

It’s just something that I decided to do for the hell of it, and it’s kind of neat to be able to point to an Amazon and say ‘Hey! That’s me!’

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Adventures

Posted by Andre Sayre in Meta-Blog on November 18, 2010

It’s been a while since I’ve last updated.  Just know that life is filled with adventures.  Go and enjoy the little things in life.  Eventually I’ll start writing again.  When I have more free time.

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Now featuring: Calendar!

Posted by Andre Sayre in Meta-Blog on March 31, 2010

My blog now has a link to my calendar!  This shows most of my schedule, including blocked off time for classes and other appointments.  It’s not meant to be all inclusive, but it gives a rough estimate of my availability.  For most people, it only shows busy/free for each event.  I’m not that unorganized though; It’s just that I like to keep some aspect of privacy in my normal day to day life.

 

If you have your very own website and would like to do the same, here’s how:

Within Google Calendar, click ‘Settings’ and then click ‘Calendars’.  For each calendar that you want to share, Click to either share or edit the sharing for that particular calendar.  Check the box to make the calendar public, and to display the free/busy info as desired.  Then, go to ‘Calendar Details’ and look for Calendar Address and click the ‘HTML’ button, and then click the link for the configuration tool.

 

Alternatively, just use this link, and choose all of the appropriate settings.  Don’t forget to set the time zone correctly!  All calendars chosen must be made public per the instructions above, lest they don’t display.

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Code Prettification

Posted by Andre Sayre in Meta-Blog, Programming on March 27, 2010

This is a test of the code prettification feature/plug-in of Live Writer.  The following Snippit is from my k-means implementation. 

CentroidDelegate<Point> pointCentroidFunc =
    delegate( IEnumerable<Point> collection, int count )
    {
        double sumX = 0;
        double sumY = 0;

        foreach( Point curPoint in collection )
        {
            sumX += curPoint.X;
            sumY += curPoint.Y;
        }

        Point newCentroid = new Point( sumX / count, sumY / count );

        return newCentroid;
    };

seqKMeans = new SequentialImpl<Point>( ( p1, p2 ) => p1.DistanceSquared( p2 ), pointCentroidFunc );
parKMeans = new ParallelImpl<Point>( ( p1, p2 ) => p1.DistanceSquared( p2 ), pointCentroidFunc );

k-Means class diagram

The class diagram thereof.  Again, will add more stuff at a later point, but for now, this is good.

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Blog Publishing

Posted by Andre Sayre in Meta-Blog on March 27, 2010

So, since I have a legitimate blog, I’ve been searching for the easiest way to add stuff to it.  Here’s what I’ve found and used so far:

 

The Word Press interface, via /wp-admin

This method is common to all Word press installs, and is what most people start off using.  For me, It’s horribly inconvenient as it requires a number of clicks, and it’s all web based which requires a context switch (more on that later).  Since this is the base, I seek to find things better than this.

 

Microsoft Word

This has the most features out of all of them.  It’s Word, for crying out loud!  However, the interface still needs to be refined, there’s no ‘one-click’ publishing.  After setting up the blog, and then typing up a post as would any other document, it then copies it to a new Document interface where you have to hit publish again.  It’s not conducive to spur of the moment posts, but if there’s an existing document, or you need to use all the features of Word, then this method is where it’s at.

 

Word This Chrome Extension

Automagically adds the link which you are visiting into the post.  Very convenient, however, due to the nature of the extension, if you need to navigate away, It doesn’t retain the information.  Also, If what you’re writing isn’t related to a specific page on the internet, then another step has to be taken to remove the irrelevant link.

 

Windows Live Writer.

I’m currently typing this up in Windows Live Writer.  So far, it’s the best solution I’ve found.  It integrates easily, and it’s a client side app so I don’t have to worry.  I can also edit the source that gets posted directly if need be, and it has support for content upload.  I’ll expand more on this after I publish (this is the test of it!) But so far, I have almost no qualms with it.  Only thing it may need is a Hotkey to bring it up on the computer for super fast spur-of-the-moment blog posts.  Maybe there’s a plugin for it.

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