November 2009
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Benchmarking JavaScript and DOM Performance using...
Conway’s Game of Life is a dead simple cellular simulation. It contains an infinite grid composed of cells, which live or die based on a few rules:
Any live cell with fewer than two live neighbours dies, as if caused by underpopulation.
Any live cell with more than three live neighbours dies, as if by overcrowding.
Any live cell with two or three live neighbours lives on to the next...
October 2009
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Guitar Pro: The Musician's IDE
I’ve been using Guitar Pro pretty regularly for the past 3 years to compose some of my music. It was originally designed to be a guitar tab editor, but it’s pianists and violinists would find themselves right at home as well. It’s pretty convenient, but I often find myself complaining about some little thing that Visual Studio has that Guitar Pro could really benefit from. This...
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What happened to joeyrobert.org?
Last Thursday I received an email from my undergraduate advisor, C. R. Jayasundera, concerning my (now dead) website, joeyrobert.org, advising me to call him ASAP. joeyrobert.org was basically a small scale version of MIT’s OpenCourseWare, where I posted all of the course material from what I was taking. It was intended to give lower years (at UW) and those interested in physics some chewing...