May 2013
1 post
Physics Applied: Rotational Motion of a Hard Drive
If the harddrive of your computer rotates with 7200 rpm (revolution / minute) and the reading head of the drive is located 3.00 cm from the rotation axis and, finally, one single bit requires 0.50µm of length, how many bits / second can the writing head write?
First of all we need to find the frequency
f = (7200 rev / min) / (60s / min) =120 rev / s = 120 Hz
ω = 2πf = 754 rad /...
April 2013
4 posts
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Coding: It is for everyone.
Whenever I encounter someone who tells me that they can’t figure out how to code, you didn’t grow up driving, you figured that out! Moreover, obviously not everyone should learn how to code, you should look yourself in the mirror and ask yourself, what do I want to do everyday for the rest of your life? Do that.
According to the Coding Textbook by David Evans, there are two reasons...
Creating Culture In Your Business – Employees...
I feel inspired by the culture firms possess today, most of the firms in the technology-industry, whether it is a start-up or a big corporation, seem to have a culture which puts its emphasis on creative talent and the people working at these firms seem to be working with something that is emotionally rewarding and something they can be proud of.
More importantly what they are doing. The amount...
A Thought To Begin With
Marketing is being shifted, however we continue to do things like it is 2007. Banner ads, e-mail marketing, traditional media. For the last decades the marketing strategy has always been push, push, push. This has changed with the social media game. You need to connect, engage, create context, because that emotional bond you have with your customer is going to mean everything to you. An instance...
March 2013
3 posts
Be Who You Would Like To Be
I don’t know if you have seen some of my latest tweets, or if you even are following me on Twitter, but recently they have been hugely influenced by a bunch of very meaningful people to me. Some of them are more prevalent than others.
I would like to mention Gary Vaynerchuk.
First of all as the author of Crush It and The Thank You Economy I can’t emphasise enough how much he has changed me as...
How You Should Launch an iPhone App
Is it worth it to launch with PPC or PPV advertisements? The answer is a clear no, if the name of your app is Angry Birds (which I by the way downloaded for free the other day) - or any other name. Normally you’d have to pay to download and shoot birds in a parabolic motion, however the other day it was finally given away for free, which was heavily covered on various tech-sites, Twitter accounts,...
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Your reputation as a software engineer matters. It is something you should seek to develop throughout your entire career, because that is what sets you apart from everyone else. The more experience you get, the more your reputation matters and it can be the reason that you either get or miss out on new opportunities.
Mikkel is fun to work with.
I trust Mikkel to work on important projects.
If...
February 2013
3 posts
1 tag
StormFly - A Computer on Your Wrist
A few days ago I backed a project I found on Kickstarter. You can pretty much say I already have fallen in love with it, without having received my product yet. It has only been pledged to $65,162, at the time of writing with the goal of $100,000. The goal has to be reached by Sunday the 3rd of March, otherwise NowComputing will not be funded through Kickstarter. So if you like this project, I...
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The Crazy Ones
Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them.
About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They invent. They imagine. They heal....
January 2013
2 posts
I am so Grateful EU
It has come to my attention that one can’t browse the web without facing annoying “cookie policy” pop-ups. The websites have created these pop-up warnings in order to comply with the “new” EU cookie law. This has led to epidemic tendencies for European-based websites.
I can’t remember how we used to browse the web without have to close a pop-up warning about cookies on every website we visit.
...
Learning C
My process of learning C has been somewhat like this, summed up in 6 bulletpoints.
Type in all of the code from examples. No copy-paste.
Type the code in exactly, even the comments - later tweak it, to play around with it.
Get it to run and make sure it prints the same output.
If there are bugs fix them.
Do the “extra credit / exercises, but it’s alright to skip ones you...
December 2012
2 posts
The Tedious Task of Web Development
As I have emerged as a C programmer I began to realise how tedious and boring the task of web development actually is (this is what really made me want to learn C, to get less abstraction from the machine itself). There is virtually nothing new to web development, the same goes to C#.Net where you kind of just need to add 3 components and you have a fully working business program. This can be a...
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“Monkey stands for honesty, giraffes are insincere”
A lot of stuff is going on around me. While I found C#.Net easy to pick up and learn a year or two back, I am experiencing an increasing amount of frustration with regards to C. I am avidly trying to comprehend all the incomprehensible concepts of C, to your surprise frustration is the key here. It makes me want to understand this...
November 2012
2 posts
Next Exit
My developing with regards to my Raspberry Pi has reached a plateau people might want to call it. It is not so much for the lack of ideas, more lack of time - it has been a busy week. I however intend to do something relatively cool with my Pi and with C.
On a further note I “accomplished” to port my Ping application to my Raspberry Pi it was easy, it literally only took 10 minutes,...
Productivity Strikes Once Again
I have 35 minutes until I will be unproductive again, I have just finished a history assignment which seemed rather like a big task, but ended up with having it done within the timespan - which left me 35 minutes, now that’s a good thing. Undisturbed in 35 minutes. I would have fished that I had taken my Raspberry Pi with me to school (unfortunately I haven’t bought a case yet nor do I have a...
October 2012
7 posts
Raspberry Pi: Arrived
So yesterday I unpacked my Raspberry Pi and today I wrote and compiled the first C program for it, and I did it over ssh - so currently I am doing all the work from my Macbook Pro as I need a hdmi to vga cable (as I do not want to use my 27” screen for it). Here’s a neat picture of the console over ssh:
It was quite a delayed the arrival so I got an email when they dispatched it...
“Whatever I have up till now accepted as most true and assured I have gotten...”
– Rene Descartes, Meditations On First Philosophy
Getting Ready: Raspberry Pi Arrival
I am on a spring break at the moment, so I have plenty of time to do some …. research work (now that I can’t do any experimental work, due to lack of equipment) also I need something to take my mind away, so it’s good.
OS Considerations
I haven’t decided solely on one operating system, but my current conviction is with Arch Linux ARM, at first I was moving...
Absinthe and cheap Czech beer
On a completely unrelated note. Well not so unrelated. I just got home from Czech Republic, I went there with 3 books, a bag and my iPhone - returned home with a smell of absinthe and cheap Czech beer.
René Descartes surprised me with his “Meditations on the First Philosophy” it was an interesting read - you could potentially learn a lot from his views, esp. in a time of need for...
Creating My Own Webserver
Let the itinerary begin for the creation of my very own C# webserver (I wish I had chosen C++ to go into depth with, typographically it’s much cleaner to write) - (Did you, bye the way, know that 1000 pages can fit into a nutshell?) I thought of this for a while and I concluded that with the variety of libraries in the .NET framework it wouldn’t be a difficult task. And to my...
“We have got more money than sense - so fuck it.”
September 2012
1 post
“She could have been a poet or she could have been a fool… Oh… you...”
August 2012
1 post
My Coding Evolution
I think over the last few years (esp. months) I have evolved as a coder.
Start using source control
You spend half a day trying to find out what you have changed in your code that has suddenly made it stop working. You realise that your current form of source control (CTRL+Z) isn’t doing you any favours. You spend an hour learning about soruce control and never ever look back.
Stop...
July 2012
6 posts
My most recent iOS application has now been approved for the App Store, the process was no pain at all. We waited since the 7th of July where we uploaded the application to iTunes Connect and it have been “Waiting for Review” since then until today at 1.31 am it was “In Review” and then 30 minutes later “Ready for Sale.” The release date of the app is the 13th...
“My goal in life is to change and enlighten the world.”
Operating System Development
I was thinking why not create a OS? So that I did. Or I am about to do it. I researched a bit on the topic and found that the only limitation was the fact that I installed Visual Studio 12 RC2 (this did not allow for me to use Cosmos). When I realised that I would have to use my old HP laptop (as I am currently wearing a Macbook Pro as my laptop) to develop using Visual C#, I thought that I might...
“Life is a difficult business, and most people find it to be actually...”
– Steven Patrick Morrissey
I am experiencing what you might call a crisis of faith with regards to my non-existant designing team. I am currently designing a website which should be a magazine or whatchamacallit. I simply can’t get my head around it, it seems all together very cluttered and unfocused.
Some of this may be the causes:
different shades of gray.
a new background for each new post
Sudden end of posts...
Ping Application
A few months back I realised the need for a Ping Application, because of this I realised that we needed that in the industry. I haven’t seen anything like it before and I thought it would be a good idea in order to check the responsiveness of a website and having +10 sites this gives a good foundation to check whether all websites are up or not.
So using some C# magic it was a treat. The...
June 2012
5 posts
“My goal is not to be better than anyone else, but to be better than I used to...”
– Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
What Hardware Should I Buy?
Once I knew everything about the latest graphic cards, CPUs, harddrives, motherboards and all the other components that are to be in your computer. Now? Not so much. I don’t really follow the hardware industry as much as I used to. I am more of a software developer (as you may have guessed), that however, does not mean that I am ignorant in the topics of Ardruino (I can build tetris in 2...
In The Cloud: Voice and SMS
Tropo isn’t fundamentally different from any of those other SMS/Voice services that are available, but it has one major advantage: in development-stage it is free. I will of course, if I am going to look into any serious business with SMS/Voice services, look for other alternatives. Caveat emptor.
As with every single cloud-based service it is very easy to get started with, just create an...
“A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted...”
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May 2012
11 posts
“When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I...”
– Steve Jobs
“For billions of years since the outset of time, every single one of your...”
– Michael Geoffrey Skinner
I am looking a bit into the world of XNA Game Studio 4.0, I remember looking at the 3.1 version, around, August 2009, didn’t really accomplish anything, I, however, got the hang of the environment and I quite liked it. I will try to develop some sort of 2D side scrolling first shooter game, if I can get myself around it.
In other news my Macbook Pro charger is not functioning, it had had...
“I think Microsoft named .NET so it wouldn’t show up in a Unix directory listing.”
– Oktal
Please, Don't Learn to Code
The Mayor of New York City wrote, some time ago, on his Twitter account that his 2012 New Year’s resolution was to learn to code using Codecademy’s CodeYear which takes you through a journey of learning JavaScript (Later on HTML and CSS) that starts with all the basics.
Personally, I like the idea of Codecademy and Code Year as it will get someone who had wanted to learn some of this...
“I can’t stand the morning, the grass always looks like it was left on the...”
“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
– Charles Bukowski
Windows Phone, Nokia's Rescue?
I recently read an article about Nokia’s loss of market capitalization in the latest 5 years. We all know this Finnish company (now American, though) as the mobile giant. My generation grew up with a Nokia 3310 in our hands and pockets.
Nokia’s shares has seen a drop by 90 percent in five years, their market capitalization has dropped from $151 billion to $11.8 billion, in just four...
I decided to change my platform from WordPress to tumblr. It is more user-friendly with regards to iPhone/iPad blogging, thus I hope of increasing productivity.
This has yet to define.
