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Class: 13 hr/wk Work: 19 hr/wk Math Homework: 4 hr/wk Coding Homework: 14 hr/wk minimum Reading for Class: 6 hr/wk Transit times: 7 hr/wk minimum National Guard duty: 20 hrs Total work and trans hours per drill week: ~77 minimum Hopefully, I can fit a meet up with Josh, a meet up with my brother, and some time with my wife in there. [...]
Added to phrases that I hate: “syntactic sugar”.
So here’s the rundown of what’s been, well, going down: Rewrote Bitstream and Huffman encoder/decoder in Java, now fully integrated with my image editor (download them from the code page) Slept, finally had an intense session with JK with lots of Dew, code, and good discussion cleaned the apartment some Tonight I have a study session for CS411, assuming that I manage to [...]
The world takes on a certain strangeness once you approach the 36 hour mark without sleep. The Huffman Coding system that I’ve been trying to implement isn’t working. The tree structure sets up properly, but an attempt to print it out (and by extension, to locate particular nodes) segfaults, a strange occurance considering my minimal use [...]
I’ve added a Code Page to the blog, which will house various completed and unfinished bits of source. More description on the page.
Why yes, I am implementing Huffman Coding at 4AM.
Somwhere in the bowels of the InterWeb, two coders converse: 2:07:12 AM qphoebusq: so 2:07:16 AM qphoebusq: i’m trying to use JNI 2:07:30 AM qphoebusq: which at first I thought was a way to call c++ functions directly from a library 2:07:43 AM joshkimdotorg: JNI? 2:07:45 AM qphoebusq: so you have a compiled native code library, a .dll on windows [...]
The last year or two has seen a rapid acceleration in the debut of new (or at least better-developed) toolkits for working with many languages. Most of these focus on web development, in particular “Web 2.0“. These languages (Ruby, PHP, Javascript, CSS, etc), and web development in general, are not my forte. I am a low-level [...]