Category Archives: Ideas

Amblyopia Tetris

News of an ‘Amblyopia Tetris’ game hit the media a few months ago. Since then I’ve kicked around the idea of making a version of it in JavaScript. Today I ran across a baseline implementation of Tetris, so I went … Continue reading

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Analogs and Parallels

I’ve been reading a book titled Dreaming in Code recently, which is a rather extensive case study of the development of an open-source project named Chandler. Many of the lessons and references to programming in general have hit home with … Continue reading

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Code Mountain

I came up with an idea this afternoon for a source code visualizer for Enterprise solutions. Basically it would provide a source code cloud built from files and their dependencies. Each cloud would be a logical block (function, if-statement, loop, … Continue reading

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Anti-Viruses

I followed an article today on Warden, the anti-cheating software used by Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. which eventually lead me to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymorphic_code. The brief synopsis there got me thinking about the way in which anti-virus software currently works. I’m reasonably convinced … Continue reading

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