A couple of days ago I first encountered “bytebeat”. This is a new hype revolving algorithmic music and sounds. The basic idea is this:
main(t) { for(t=0;;t++) putchar( t * (((t>>12) | (t>>8) ) & ( 63 & (t>>4)))); }
This simple loop has one variable, t (time). And every iteration we use t to [...]
The last couple of years more and more people have been moving towards Agile development. These techniques aren’t new, most we’re devised in the 80s or 90s. But finally these days programmers and (more importantly) business consultants, architects and clients have learned to love and embrace Agile development.
Evolving requirements
It [...]
This year I’ll be presenting at Devoxx in Antwerp, Belgium. In my opinion it currently is the best Java conference in the world. It’ll be my first talk in English.
The titel of the talk is: What Shazam doesn’t want you to know.
During the talk I’ll be explaining how Shazam works and [...]
This weekend I wrote my first Android application: Love or Hate
The idea behind the game is very simple. When you start it the application goes online and looks at the most recent tweets containing the following phrases:
“I love it when” “I hate it when”
The application now displays [...]
Crowdflow wants to have your iPhone data, to generate pretty heatmaps!
Why am I telling you this? Because they are using my backup-data-extractor code! See their most recent blog entry.
The images they produce look very good, much better then the KML file in Google Earth!
Be sure to help them soon, because [...]
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- Unique, there is only one traffic jam in the Netherlands currently! The only problem? It is almost 1000km long.
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