Blaine Buxton: Positronic Vibrations From Alto Dorado"COMPUTER POWER TO THE PEOPLE! DOWN WITH CYBERCRUD!" - Theodor NelsonPlaying With Procs And Objects- April 14, 2006 One of the things that I love about Ruby is the ability to treat methods and blocks as the same:def square(number) number numberendmethod = method(:square)block = lambda number numbernumbernumbers = 1, 2, 3prepare to get the same answerp numbers.collect(&method)result: 1, 4, 9p numbers.collect(&block)result: 1, 4, 9At first glance, you might think this happens because of method and block having a common method in :call. But, you would be wrong. Try this code and watch it fail:This failsclass..http://blog.blainebuxton.com/2006/04/playing-with-procs-and-objects.html Moved- April 14, 2006 I moved my blog to a bright new location and you can access the feed right here. It's been a long time coming. If anyone runs into any problems, let me know!http://blog.blainebuxton.com/2006/04/moved.html Nintendo and Casual Gamers- April 14, 2006 James Robertson talks about the market that Nintendo is after and it's the causal gamer. I must admit they get all of my gaming money (which isn't much). I'm probably what they consider a casual gamer. I don't play that much and when I do it's just to have some mad fun to clear the mind. Nintendo has the best "fun" games. Bar none, my favorite games ever are the Mario and Donkey Kong off-shoots (Donkey Kong Country, Mario Kart, Mario Bros, Wario, Yoshi, etc). Plus, I like carrying my games with.http://blog.blainebuxton.com/2006/04/nintendo-and-casual-gamers.html Mini-Fight- April 12, 2006 From Blabbermouth comes this funny bit of news about MiniKiss vs. TinyKiss. It does't get much stranger:Robert W. Welkos of the Los Angeles Times is reporting that Joey Fatale, the 4-foot, 4-inch New Yorker who heads the all-dwarf KISS tribute band MINIKISS, is denying published reports that he tried to sneak past security last month at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas to confront a rival band leader, 4-foot "Little" Tim Loomis of TINY KISS, for allegedly ripping off his idea for...http://blog.blainebuxton.com/2006/04/mini-fight.html Revisiting Old Code And Private- April 2, 2006 I've been looking through old code as of late and well, it's...it's...EMBARASSING! There I said it. Does anyone else do this I was looking at my Thesaurus project (my Squeak version and soon-to-be Java version) and was appalled at a lot of the code. So, I spent sometime refactoring and getting the code back into shape. My Thesaurus project in Squeak was a quick excursion into writing Morphs and that code was fine. What made me crinch was my parsing code! For one thing, I put all of the code for.http://blog.blainebuxton.com/2006/04/revisiting-old-code-and-private.html |