Category Archives: Projects

OAuth and Export Controls

Posted on December 13, 2010 by MXH

Reading over the OAuth protocol (RFC 5849), I noticed something a little odd in section 2.1: Since the request results in the transmission of plain text credentials in the HTTP response, the server MUST require the use of a transport-layer … Continue reading →

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Comments Experiment

Posted on December 12, 2010 by MXH

I’m going to experiment with enabling comments. Right now, they’re set up s.t. everything has to be manually approved. I’m not sure what my approval criteria will be — probably something along the lines of “I’d enjoy reading that if … Continue reading →

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SSD Upgrade

Posted on December 3, 2010 by MXH

I recently upgraded the hard drive in my 2009 Mac Mini (model Macmini3,1) to a solid-state drive (SSD), and thought it might be helpful to share some notes on the experience. Opening up the Mini and poking around inside it … Continue reading →

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50,000 Word Stories: NaNoWriMo 2010

Posted on October 31, 2010 by MXH

November is National Novel Writing Month. I’m going to take a crack at it. The goal of NaNoWriMo is to crank out 50,000 words in a month — it’s all about volume, not quality. The embarrassment potential is really high … Continue reading →

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Taipan! Update

Posted on October 8, 2010 by MXH

Just a quick announcement today: I’ve released (and AAPL has approved) a new version of Taipan! — this version incorporates the classic Apple ][ ship graphics, and an option for faster combat. It’s available in the iTunes App Store. The … Continue reading →

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District Scraping

Posted on October 1, 2010 by MXH

Today, just a quick little project: Let’s use Python to extract Congressional Districts from web pages. This is mostly a regex demo.

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Learning from Trolls (2)

Posted on September 29, 2010 by MXH

As I remarked on Monday, I’m lucky in that most of the feedback I get is positive. The one major — and not unexpected — exception to this is the review section of my Taipan! app’s iTunes page. Taipan! was … Continue reading →

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Demine iOS 4.0 Upgrades (Multitasking Part 2)

Posted on August 20, 2010 by MXH

Today we’re going to finish updating the Demine project for the iOS 4.0 environment by adding complete support for multitasking. Even though Demine is not going to be doing any background processing, it turns out that a multitasking environment mandates … Continue reading →

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Demine iOS 4.0 Upgrades (Multitasking Part 1)

Posted on August 13, 2010 by MXH

Today we’re going to continue updating the Demine project for the iOS 4.0 environment: we’re going to begin to add support for multitasking. Even though Demine is not going to be doing any background processing, it turns out that a … Continue reading →

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Demine iOS 4.0 Upgrades (Resolution)

Posted on August 6, 2010 by MXH

I want to walk through the process of updating the Demine project for the iOS 4.0 environment. This procedure is more complex than that associated with retargeting for earlier OSes, largely because iOS 4.0 adds support for multitasking and for … Continue reading →

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