When my buddy brought me in to develop custom software for his WordPress website, I wished that there was a guide called “PHP for people who don’t feel like learning PHP.” Years later, I still wish that guide existed. For those with
Read moreDealing with Online Reviews
I estimate that I’ve written north of 800 reviews. Books, vacation spots, restaurants–I just like writing. I like forcing myself to think critically about the things I purchase and experience. I’ve also been involved with businesses and products that have
Read moreBuilding a Food Contamination Data Set
Following July’s Chipotle Norovirus outbreak, I wrote an article in which I analyzed ways that we might be able to profit from detecting food health incidents before they are disclosed by the mainstream media. For publicly traded companies, a confirmed
Read moreHaving Fun with Rap Lyrics – An Abstract
I’ve spent the past year thinking about rap lyrics. Matt Daniels’ The Largest Vocabulary in Hip Hop remains as the pinnacle of pop culture meets computer science and was the inspiration behind my development of Cypher, a program that calculates
Read moreModding Command & Conquer: Generals on OSX
Command & Conquer: Generals is a real-time strategy game released in 2003 on Windows. I remember playing the game at 1/6 speed on my father’s original-model Dell Inspiron laptop, never winning a match until I repurchased the game in a bundle
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