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No Comments – A Failure Twice

By chad August 17, 2014Doing Things Better, Programming, Software Engineering, TipsNo Comments

Everyone that writes code has encountered or written their fair share of undocumented code. A failure twice? I was encouraged to write this article because of something I read about the pinball game that once was included with windows. According to the article on MSDN, the pinball game was removed…

Node.js vs Python vs PyPy – A Simple Performance Comparison

By chad August 2, 2014Programming, Software Engineering, Technology28 Comments

IMPORTANT NOTE: The NodeJS algorithm had a slight discrepancy in it. See this article for a correction to the performance comparison section of this article. The Algorithm Yesterday, I decided to try translate my algorithm for calculating N-Queens to JavaScript. I've implemented the same single-thread, brute force, recursive algorithm in…

DateTakenPhotoSorter.py – A python script for sorting photos

By chad September 19, 2009Photography, ProgrammingNo Comments

I decided this script was a necessity since I've been arranging my photos based on date taken since I bought my first Canon point and shoot. After buying my Nikon 5000, I was disappointed to find the Nikon's sync software did not break photos out into directories based on the…