Posts in Category: Life

Interviewed by BBC about Betaville

On September 10, 2012 by Skye With 1 Comments - Life

I was contacted last week by someone from BBC to be interviewed about my work on Betaville. We arranged an interview over Skype for this morning. I had a blast getting to talk about such a great project and look forward to seeing the press coverage.

My thanks to Nastaran for getting in touch and conducting the interview!

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Finally a Real Website

On April 25, 2012 by Skye With 0 Comments - Life

Well its only taken [insert unforgivable number of years], but I’ve finally gotten myself a serviceable web page at the root of my domain..  I still need to finish adding all of the content but I’m glad to have something up with at least some color instead of just redirecting to this rather drab (but very smart and full of knowledge!) blog.

That said, I’ll see you over at http://skyebook.net

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Where Have I Been?

On April 15, 2012 by Skye With 0 Comments - Life, Programming

I realize I’ve been more vacant than usual these last few months, perhaps its time to get a post down on [roughly] what I’ve been up to.  In late February I took on a pretty interesting job for a big name client (details coming soon!).  The work has afforded me the ability to become quite intimate with a number of technologies of which I’d only had “user manual” level experience.

  • Event Driven HTTP Servers in Java
  • Lots of spatial analysis using PostgreSQL’s built-in Geometry types (I didn’t even know these existed outside of PostGIS)
  • Circle Packing algorithms
  • Super Bonus:Processing found its way back into my life!  Visual prototypes that happened to be beautiful really helped me out.

There will be more information about what I’m up to in a the next week or two, but its exciting and I’m working with some awesome people.. Stay tuned!

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Heartbeat

On February 7, 2011 by Skye With 0 Comments - Life

I got to thinking about all the underlying “services” we have running under the skin and how they never fail (until something goes wrong). Below is a few minutes of your heart pumping blood throughout your body based on an average healthy adult (~80 bpm). I put in a small randomization function to simulate the fluctuations the body goes through. Think about this the next time you take yourself for granted :) 


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2011: Similar But Different

On January 8, 2011 by Skye With 1 Comments - Life, Travel

Welcome to the new year.  I’d say I’m extremely fortunate to have rolled into it in good health surrounded by good people.  Thankfully I’ve got plenty to keep me busy this year with Betaville as well as my duties over at jMonkeyEngine (and that thing about working on my master’s degree at NYU-Poly… I always forget to mention that), but I’ve still got things I want to fit in.

Herein I insert these ambitions to MySQL and do promise for the next 365 days not to sneakily update or delete any columns which may obfuscate my original intentions:

  • Write something here once a week (this post doesn’t count)
  • Learn to make sushi
  • Buy some new gloves and a new stick -> find a hockey league before the fall -> revert to childhood passions

I wish I had more planned, but perhaps its a good sign that I feel like I’m sort of doing the right things already.  As I’m writing this the German sonne has decided to finally come up at 9:40 and is telling me to get out (shopping for groceries before the sun comes up makes me feel like I haven’t been out ‘today’) and do something.

So cheers to you 2010 and hello 2011!

Oh The Things I’ll Do To Avoid Productivity

On October 28, 2009 by Skye With 0 Comments - Life

Sometimes 3AM rolls around and a man has just had enough NullPointerExceptions for a night. Some folks go to sleep, some watch TV, I make a 5 year overdue blog for myself. So what does this mean for you, the end user and information consumer? Well for one, it means that you can now study my wisdom line by line, word by word, keystroke by keystroke.

I’m hoping to put some bits of code, recipe, topics of general computing interest, and about anything else that I feel like a likeminded individual may enjoy.

So reader, I applaud you for coming here and if you’ve made it this far, further accolades are in order for not leaving.

That’s it then? Yep.