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Iowa State University, winter

I have been hacking on software for ages, and I am always trying to understand more. These are some recent examples of code and notes on stuff. Enjoy!

Recent stuff

twitter-unfav (github): A Haskell program to delete old favorites on Twitter, using a modified askitter library
Haskell "hello world" with `let`: An introduction I wish someone had given me two years ago, briefly showing let syntaxes and the big difference in ghci
BLAKE (github) (hackage: blakesum, blakesum-demo): An experimental Haskell implementation of the BLAKE SHA-3 candidate hash algorithms, including BLAKE-256, BLAKE-512, BLAKE-224, and BLAKE-384. (Based on the submitted BLAKE proposal.)
Operator precedence: F# and Haskell: Notes on operator precedence in Haskell and F#
Ninlil, for Tumblr (github): An F# experiment in reading, reblogging, and deleting posts using Tumblr's API (v1)
Notes on F# agents: Fooling around with mailbox processing agents in F#
Dragon curve in JavaScript: Fractal goodness in SVG! (Tested with Chrome.)
Comparing F#, Go, and Haskell...: I did some rough testing of some sample programs written in F#, Go, and Haskell to see how efficient they can be at IO for large files. (With charts!)
A brief stab at Clojure: Attempting to do a bit of IO in Clojure...
X Window System versions: A JavaScript plotting demo: this graph shows a (very rough) comparison of the apparent version numbers and the point releases of the eternal windowing system over time. (Works in Chrome).
HTML5 Canvas Basics: An exploration of the <canvas> tag and properties...
monkeyPrototypes: Hijinks with JavaScript objects and prototypes, with examples in the primate family tree!
prettifyXHR: I've created a script which provides a function which can use XMLHttpRequest to retrieve a file, then inserts it into the document and applies syntax highlighting from prettify. This shows it in action.
firstXHR: This is a brief experiment with XMLHttpRequest.
inputFile: I'm experimenting with the HTML5 FileReader and toying with Flot and jqPlot graphs...
orbital: I'm experimenting with HTML5 geolocation. I'm not saving your location, though. Yet.
excelGrep: This is a tool for searching within Excel spreadsheets and then navigating to the cells with resulting matches: one thing I wish was better done by Excel 2003, at least. I made this from an unholy combination of JavaScript, jQuery, and ActiveX (sorry, it does require IE and Microsoft Excel). This one does something quite useful in only ~250 lines of JavaScript!

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