Published 25. February 2010 at 5:05 pm - 2 Comments
Link: Lottery Number Generator
A couple weeks ago I was asked to program a web application that picks numbers for the Mega Millions lottery. The commissioner, my girlfriend, asked me to write some algorithms that chose numbers at random with a slight weight towards numbers that have been drawn recently,...
Published 23. February 2010 at 11:59 am - No Comments
That’s the gig I almost landed today, but I missed the phone call from the person who was going to ask me to do it. Oh well!
I still had a great time watching the performance. Hands down the best piano performance I have ever seen live, and I’ve seen a handful of big names. He played...
Published 22. February 2010 at 12:02 am - No Comments
I spent the 17th – 19th at the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University interviewing for a spot in their composition masters program. I took some theory and ear training tests and interviewed for a couple teaching assistantships as well. Overall, I was impressed with the conservatory. ...
Published 21. February 2010 at 3:26 pm - No Comments
This is the final port from my old site.
In 2006 I discovered a similar program to the OHRRPGCE: FPS Creator, an open-source foundation for 3D shoot-em-up games. The user has freedom to create his own graphics, plots, scripted events, and even engine tweaks.
System Specifications
The 3D graphics will...
Published 21. February 2010 at 3:18 pm - One Comment
Yet another port from my old web site to my new blog.
Around 1998 I decided that I wanted to make a web site, so I went to the library and checked out book after book on HTML, JavaScript, VRML (what ever happened to that?), Qbasic, Visual Basic, C, and the list goes on. Since Qbasic and JavaScript...
Published 21. February 2010 at 3:02 pm - 2 Comments
Again, here is another port from my old site onto this blog:
BackgroundIn August of 2008 I began teaching piano skills, repertoire, and theory to UVA students and Charlottesville residents. At first I was nervous… I can play the piano..but can I teach it? After my first lesson, however, I realized...
Published 21. February 2010 at 2:58 pm - One Comment
Here is the “Max/MSP” page from my old site. Although I have a lot of fun with Max, I’m still very much a novice. Enjoy!
Mungamung (.txt | screenshot)
An instrument that can send and receive signals.
Noober LFO (.txt | screenshot)
So named because my professor’s...
Published 21. February 2010 at 2:53 pm - No Comments
Since I’m in the process of porting my entire site onto this blog, you can expect a lot of entries today. Here is my old “audio” page:
Piano
Flux (November 2009)
I. Harmony
II. Melody
Portraits (August – December 2009)
No.5
(YouTube)
No.7
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Published 3. January 2010 at 12:36 am - No Comments
At first I thought this promo video was a joke, but actually….it isn’t.
From now on all of my music will be composed with Microsoft Songsmith.
Published 19. December 2009 at 11:53 pm - No Comments
I put six patches on the Max/MSP page — go check em out!
In other news, Virginia has been hit with one nasty snow storm, which I had the good fortune of driving through for eight hours last night. The normally pleasant three-hour drive from Charlottesville to Virginia Beach ended up being pretty...
Last night I created a simple captcha script that is more than secure enough for most applications. It consists of three scripts: index.php, which contains a sample form, process.php, which validates the form, and captcha_lite.php, which creates the captcha. Demo | Download scripts and images Features: Lightweight, well-commented scripts No need for a MySQL database
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A pet project of mine over spring break and the past few days has been a site called Why I’m Great, a forum similar to fmylife.com where, instead of complaining about how their lives suck, visitors can brag about how awesome they are, all under the cloak of web anonymity. My friend Sean came up
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