OddThinking

In which Julian stumbles over a serious gotcha in Python’s SMTPHandler for logging messages.

The idea of the computer popping up each morning and saying “Well done! You just hit your highest week’s turnover ever.” or “Oh dear! You had your worst continuous run of profit-less transactions in a row!” might make my job more interesting…

Is the real problem with compilers (and web-development and unit-tests) that they force a context-switch in the middle of the development process?

Wherein Julian finds he can re-use hobby code to solve a real-life problem.

In which Julian tries to choose a data-structure with a low constant time, in a low constant time.

I have often considered writing a Battleship-playing AI, but I never have.

Now, I discover, there is a Battleship-playing AI competition, which I don’t have the time (or .NET experience) to enter.

Use Case Name

Death of Computer User

OTTF (short for One Two Three Four) is a simple single-person puzzle game.

I re-use my Game Framework to solve it.

Another puzzle solved with the same architecture as before, but this time, with added code re-use.

Dear Web Server Owners

Your MP3 files should have an MIME type of audio/mpeg.