Carving Class (Day 1)

A while back I signed up for a wood carving class at Lee Valley and last night was the first class. The project we are carving is a 6″ or so bust of a mountain man complete with ‘coon skin cap. As it turns out most of the other students in the class have all ...

Boo!

No this isn’t a Halloween post or anything like that. This post is about a fancy Pythonic language for the .NET CLR called Boo. Boo is a strongly typed programming language that has a very similar syntax to Python and it targets the .NET CLR. The syntax differs in quite a few places to make ...

Backupy Goodness

I have a lot of data scattered around the Internet on various servers. A lot of my personal data exists on an account on a server at Dreamhost. I also have a some servers at home and a client’s webserver with about 12G of data on it. All in all I’m responsible for about 15G ...

VB6 has a limit of 64k of code per procedure

Wow.  I actually encountered the 64k code / procedure limit in VB6 this morning.  I’m sure when this limit was set the programmer thought that nobody would ever write a single function of that size and really nobody should, but we did I believe this is a prime candidate for refactoring!

Processing 4×5 Film

Kyle bought a 4×5 camera a few weeks ago and recently shot a couple frames of black and white.  He doesn’t have a darkroom, yet, and he needed them processed so I figured I’d give it a try since I’ve got the darkroom and the chemistry. I was originally planning on tray developing them but ...