Monthly Archives: December 2011

The Canadian Apple TV Experience

For Christmas I bought my wife an Apple TV, which is the second generation of the device.  We’ve been using it for the past week, and I thought I’d share some of my thoughts on what it’s like. tl;dr It’s fantastic for movie rentals via iTunes, makes no sense for television. Living, as we do, in northern [...]
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Using LaTeX to publish a novel on Lulu

I’m going to blog about this because I can already feel myself forgetting key bits of the process.  You’re welcome to the information too, but please note, dear reader, that I’m sure there are more appropriate ways to accomplish some of what I did. My friend Luke wrote a novel for his children, which he’s self-publishing [...]
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Reading Hitchens, Remembering Chesterton

Reading the various obituaries and reflections on the occasion of Christopher Hitchens death, caused me to go back and re-read some of his articles, especially those in Vanity Fair and Salon.  As a Christian believer myself, I disagree with much of his thought; but as a writer and thinker, I appreciate his style, his enormous [...]
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Implementing Mouse Lock, conclusion

This post is the last in a series I’m writing about my work to implement the Mouse Lock API in Mozilla. I’m doing the work with students in my Mozilla Open Source course at Seneca College, and so these posts are intentionally didactic and self reflective. The aim of the series is [...]
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Level Up: Mouse Lock + Gamepad builds

I’m finishing up the Mouse Lock patch today so I can get it into review by Friday, which mostly means I’m waiting on my students to get their tests finalized (hurry up, guys!).  Meanwhile, I’ve had a bunch of people ask for builds, and also to fold the Gamepad and Mouse Lock APIs into one [...]
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