These days it seems like all programming is about creating web-apps! For a long time, I sort of resisted this tend, and I tended to think of user-interface-related work as “beneath” me; I was more interested in lower-level type programming for sure. Recently, however, I started to study how modern web browsers work, and I
Abstract This blog post documents the creation of a simple “web-app” for viewing articles from simple.wikipedia and en.wikipedia side-by-side, and expounds on the importance of a “do-it-yourself”-attitude and a “minimalistic-mindset” to the programmer. The finished product described here can be seen at the following URL: https://kundalinisoftware.com/io/wikicompare.html Form Follows Function The phrase “form follows function” comes
“Programs often stem from a developer’s itch” unknown Introduction Google’s Chrome browser is an amazing feat of cross-platform software engineering that I (along with millions of other people!) use on a daily basis. Like other web browsers, Chrome has the ability to support extensions to extend its functionality. In this post, I am going to
If something is worth doing once, it is worth automating. Unknown (Note: the github repository for the library developed in this post is available here.) I think being a computer programmer is a mindset; it means to think in algorithmic terms, or how to formulate problems in terms of discrete steps to achieve our outcomes.
I had the privilege of studying music privately with the Greek-American concert pianist Nicholas Constantinidis. When Nick died, I played a Memorial Service service for him in my hometown of Kent, Ohio. Nick was the most amazing self-actualized person I’d ever met. He was a lineage holder in the European tradition of concert pianists: Nicholas Constantinidis -> Ignaz
When I first started learning and working with Java, one of the questions that I was initially faced with is how to use enumerations. So for example, imagine you are writing a program that needs to deal with a few color codes. In such a case, we might define several constants in our Java program