:. They call me a jerk, once they get to know me
But they don't stop calling
I'm in the process of rebuilding this website. Same stupid content. New stupid layout.
:. Passed 100 problems solved on Project Euler!
Mon, 02/27/2012 08:24:28 @ http://eskibars.com/projecteuler/finished/
I finally passed 100 solved problems on Project Euler, an online math & programming "competition" of sorts. This puts me back in the top 100 perl programmers on the site!
In a related note, I taught myself some PARI/GP to complete some of the recent problems. It's a really spectacular programming languages for math. I'm going to be using it a lot more for several other project I'm working on.
Wed, 08/31/2011 08:13:03 @ http://www.chickenandwafflesandwich.com/
Great new late night food option!
:. Now On TwitterWed, 04/27/2011 09:49:28 @ http://twitter.com/eskibars :. CalSync
Wed, 02/02/2011 03:21:43 @ http://iphone.eskibars.com
You know what's annoying? The fact that the iPhone does not automatically add e-mailed calendar items to your phone calendar... they just show up as attached .ics files and it doesn't put them on your calendar, and depending on your version of iOS, you may or may not even be able to open them! How annoying!
Luckily, you have Shane Connelly to the rescue!
I've added something I call "iPhone CalSync" to iPhoneHome. How it works:
1. You enter your username, password, and POP3 mail server settings to the CalSync settings.
2. You add a "Subscribed Calendar" to your iPhone.
3. Every 15 minutes, CalSync logs into your e-mail account, checks for calendar entries, and if there are any, it publishes them to the subscribed calendar, which your phone downloads and adds the entires to your calendar.
Voila!
Check it out yourself and get yourself an iPhoneHome account at http://iphone.eskibars.com
Wed, 12/08/2010 06:23:17 @ http://www.eskibars.com/projects/pdfencrypt
I had the need today to create a PDF with encryption, but I don't have Adobe Acrobat (the full version). Boo! Anyway, I quickly got on the thinking cap, found some information about how to create encrypted PDFs, and made a little script to do it for me. Now you can use it too. Project link available above.
:. Compare yourself to the average citizenSun, 12/05/2010 01:28:58 @ http://www.eskibars.com/projects/stats_weekhours
I found a neat report on the website of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics which describes how an average US citizen spends their time. I've made a little utility to allow you to compare your time to that average. Project available at the project URL, above.
:. Is A LendingClub.com Account Profitable?Sun, 11/21/2010 12:22:32 @ http://www.eskibars.com/projects/lendingclub
My Lending Club investment strategy seems to be working pretty well, with 16+% returns and <1% of notes in any late standing...
Wed, 07/21/2010 03:34:05 @ http://www.eskibars.com/projects/lendingclub
I've added a new project: a perl module to act as an API interface to the site lendingclub.com. Documentation, source code, and a link into the subversion repository is available on the project page (linked)
:. iPhoneHomeSun, 07/26/2009 09:11:54 @ http://iphone.eskibars.com/register.php
Finally! Introducing: what I'm tentatively calling iPhoneHome. I've been working on this project for a while, trying to build a modularized system for rapid expansion, and it's finally ready for a public beta.
The idea behind this system is a personalize website for mobile devices that looks and acts like an iPhone application. Additional modules can be added and configured per-user, dropped into folders, and rearranged through a web console administration.
An example (click to see live):
Registration is open at http://iphone.eskibars.com/register.php
Mon, 02/16/2009 05:21:37 @ http://www.apple.com/iphone/
Purchased an iPhone today. I swear I'm not just a bandwagonning, bragging, blasphemous, bothersome brother though. I'm posting here because you may expect some potentially new apps courtesy of yours truly.
Keep on the look out.