• About John

    Going redditless for a day

    by  • February 6, 2012 • Experience, News • 0 Comments

    Ironically, part of what inspired this post was Hacker News discussion ABOUT a post on reddit. See the original thread here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3555237. The other part, an argument I had with my wife about how much clutter is in our apartment, which I believe is mainly due to the fact that both of us tend to procrastinate (by browsing reddit and Facebook) when it comes to chores such as cleaning the dishes and doing the laundry.

    What is redditless?

    Going redditless is about trimming some of the excess fat in my day to day activities. It doesn’t necessarily refer to reddit, but any mindless consumption of content that doesn’t really matter on a day-to-day basis.

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    My advice for undergraduate CS majors

    by  • January 29, 2012 • News, Programming • 1 Comment

    This won’t be a story about how I had a great idea and became the next Mark Zuckerberg, because frankly—I didn’t. By no means do I consider myself, or my current position extraordinary. I see myself as an average person with a passion for software development, who used this passion to succeed in university, something that anybody can do if they try. Sure, this path may be more difficult depending on what school you go to, what people you know, or what opportunities you were given, but I believe anyone who puts in the time and effort can excel in the software industry.…

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    Windows Phone Marketplace

    by  • October 4, 2011 • Microsoft, News • 0 Comments

    Marketplace & Mango

    With the recent release of the Windows Phone 7.5 update, code named Mango, Microsoft also released the Windows Phone Marketplace (http://www.windowsphone.com/marketplace). This is pretty big news for all of the WP7 users out there–although there were some 3rd party sites that would host some basic information about the available marketplace apps, none of them were full featured and didn’t really allow you to discover any great apps through their interface. The official WP7 marketplace provides all of the same information that was previously available only from Zune or WP7 marketplace app, and really makes the experience of looking for interesting apps much more useful.…

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    d3, wow Forum Readers Currently Bugged

    by  • September 26, 2011 • News, Programming • 0 Comments

    Blizzard recently updated the HTML of the pagination so the threads are currently only able to download the first page. I have posted a fix to the App Hub and the update should be available in the next few days. I apologize for the inconvenience!

    I am working on a change in the underlying engine so that the HTML configuration can be downloaded on the fly from my server rather than being hard-coded in the app. Additionally, I plan on adding functionality to allow you to directly access the URL of each forum and thread, so if this happens in the future you will be able to copy and paste the value into the web browser and view it manually.…

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