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Texas Longhorns game day favorites

2009-01-222009-01-22 by mike

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Real Programmers

2009-01-202009-01-20 by mike

http://xkcd.com/378/

iPhone app

2009-01-182009-01-18 by mike

This was an iPhone app I built. Got the 2 user version going but the group behind the project fizzled out.

No programming language is perfect

2009-01-162009-01-16 by mike

No programming language is perfect. There is not even a single best language; there are only languages well suited or perhaps poorly suited for particular purposes. –Herbert Mayer

Trading Strategy Backtest

2008-12-062008-12-06 by mike

Update 2022/01/04: Backtest is a desktop Windows app I developed in the late 2000s. A couple of colleagues and I were studying futures day trading and we wanted to test strategies against historical data. We collaborated for a couple of years while experimenting, trading and evolving Backtest. Some screen shots of my Trading Strategy Backtest […]

Dual Quad is up

2008-12-052008-12-05 by mike

March 2009: Up to 16G Dec2008: Just built this dual quad machine for running my financial simulation app.

Games

2008-11-132008-11-13 by mike

Mini golf Play minigolf Bloxorz Play Bloxorz GetBlackOut Play Get black out. Fantastic Contraption This is a very cool puzzle/game. Basically you build an autonomous machine to perform a simple task, with the tasks becoming increasingly difficult… FantasticContraption.com site some contraptions

Disorder in the American Courts

2008-11-102008-11-10 by mike

These are from a book called Disorder in the American Courts, and are things people actually said in court, word for word, taken down and now published by court reporters who had the torment of staying calm while these exchanges were actually taking place. Q: Are you sexually active? A: No, I just lie there. […]