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While poking around on the Mac I use for work… yes, I use a Mac at work now (not by choice, it’s just what the company uses)… I came across a little application called PhotoBooth. It uses the built in camera to turn your laptop into a little fun photo booth. It’s one of those applications that gives you a bunch of cool effects you can apply in real time… a neat little toy. Below are a couple of the shots I took:
Well, it looks like my Eclipse Frills plug-ins do not work on Mac, which is what we develop on at my new company. I am sure it will be some stupid-easy fix, but I will have to throw this into the 1.0 release that is coming soon… no really, it is; most of the code is done, I just have to fix this and push it all out. I have just been a bit busy with other things… like moving my entire life to another state. :-)
Damn, this place is huge! I have been in the Dallas/Ft Worth Metroplex for a little over a week now and am doing well. We are still not setup in an apartment yet, but hope to have something soon so we can settle in and get back to some normality. I have some good posting ideas, just no real time to write them.
I was watching the Colbert Report last night and Stephen gave Firefox 3 the Colbert Bump. Now the stage is truly set for world domination.
Mozilla pushed out their big Firefox 3 Download Day campaign via their SpreadFirefox web site, which was supposed to be a record-breaking 24-hour download goal to mark the release of the latest version of Firefox.
Major Failure. The flood gates were supposed to open at 10:00 am Pacific time… I missed the starting gun but it is now 11:26 am Pacific time and every mozilla-related server I can think of is dead and down… real slick guys, great PR. I would like to hear what happened on this one; these kinds of things are always a good learning experience.
I probably won’t be posting much for the next month or so as we are packing up and moving to the Dallas / Ft. Worth, Texas area. As you may remember, the company I work for is closing down its Tucson office (see Mixed Feelings). After much discussion, many interviews, and even a few other offers, we decided to take an offer in Texas. Now we are packing up, wrapping up and moving out so that I can start my new job in three weeks.
If you know me, you know that I love Eclipse as both an IDE and a development platform; that’s not to say that I am one of those fanatical “YOU MUST USE [INSERT TECHNOLOGY NAME]!” freaks. I have always felt that you should use what works best for you and your development style. I don’t care if you develop using Vi or notepad as long as you get things done. Anyway, that’s not really what this post is about.
If you are following along you may have noticed that I have been compiling a long list of soutions to my Find Duplicate Ints problem. I was talking to one of my co-workers, who is not a developer but used to do some Perl hacking, and he suggested that it could be done with regular expressions. Lo and behold, with the help of another of my more regular-expression-ized co-workers we found this to be true:
public int findDuplicate(final int[] array){
final Pattern p = Pattern.compile(".*?(\\d+. ).*?\\1.*");
Okay, so it’s just a stapler, but the Staple Free Stapler caught my eye and so I finally broke down and bought one.
