Category Archives: Programming

Feed Notifier has its own website now! http://www.feednotifier.com/ I’ve created a small but useful application that resides in the system tray and polls RSS/Atom web feeds for new content.  When new items are found, the app displays a popup notification … Continue reading →

I had a really hard time figuring out how to do this so I decided to post the (simple) solution on my blog. I basically needed to be able to show a window without it stealing focus from the currently … Continue reading →

I generally avoid sharing information about my work projects, but this is sufficiently generic that it won’t reveal anything that should be kept secret. A new application that I’m developing at work requires a UI control that allows the user … Continue reading →

Four years ago I created a Pacman clone in Java using SWT (my preferred Java graphics toolkit).  It’s one of the few personal programming projects that I actually completed, so I wanted to bring it back up on my new … Continue reading →

My co-worker recently showed me a neat project that he found online: http://rogeralsing.com/2008/12/07/genetic-programming-evolution-of-mona-lisa/ The basic idea is that an evolutionary algorithm is used to mutate a set of polygons until they resemble a target image. I immediately wanted to try … Continue reading →