Author Archives: Grant

About Grant

I grew up on the mean cul-du-sacs of Troy, Ohio, USA. I first started "programming" at the age of five on an Atari 400 when I used BASIC to draw an ASCII picture of robot with wheels on his feet. Why the emphasis on feet with wheels? At the time it was a big deal, I didn't have wheels on my feet which forced me to walk everywhere. I would have been so much cooler to just skate around. Since then I've gone on to work on all manners of different technologies, but rest assured if I ever write another robot program he won't just be walking around. Perhaps some tank treads...

How debugging Java taught me about professional anvil shooting

Posted on October 22, 2009 by Grant

Today I decided to look a into a bug we encountered when using the Sun Java JRE 1.6 on certain distributions of Linux. When we first found the defect it became pretty clear that something somewhere had changed between JDK … Continue reading →

Posted in Explosions, Pretty Darn Useless | 1 Comment

GPS says I am really fast.

Posted on October 15, 2009 by Grant

So over the last few months I’ve taken up running. Even stranger is that I am actually enjoying it. To those who know me this pretty much confirms that I’ve gone completely bat-$#&@ insane. Unlike the old days of doing … Continue reading →

Posted in GPS, iPhone, Running | 2 Comments

Windows 7 Launch Party

Posted on September 23, 2009 by Grant

*Looks for words* *Scratches head* *Again looks for words* I’ve got nothing. Watch this:

Posted in Marketing, Windows 7 | Leave a comment

Snow Leopard cop-out review

Posted on September 1, 2009 by Grant

Rather than rehash a Snow Leopard review or for that matter even bother writing one up myself you should read the outstanding review at Ars Technica. Ars super Snow Leopard review. I will point out the three sections that if … Continue reading →

Posted in Apple, Snow Leopard | 1 Comment

A twitter bot made me laugh

Posted on August 21, 2009 by Grant

I make a Ghostbusters joke on Twitter, a bot sees the word “trap” and follows up with Admiral Ackbar. That is awesome on so many different levels.

Posted in Twitter | Leave a comment

Testing from an iPhone

Posted on July 29, 2009 by Grant

This is a test of yet another way I can not post very often.

Posted in iPhone | Tagged | 1 Comment

Applescripting Xcode and Qt qmake: Adding a run script build phase

Posted on May 7, 2009 by Grant

So I’ve got a problem. And no, it doesn’t involve lawyers. I know, I’m surprised about that as you are. My problem is that I want Xcode to automatically run my unit tests after each debug build. The trouble is … Continue reading →

Posted in Apple, Applescript, qmake, Qt, Xcode | 3 Comments

if (i.is_After_C()) printf(“e”);

Posted on January 20, 2009 by Grant

Last night I was watching the War History Channel and a really helpful commercial came on. It offered to tell me how to use the Internet to uh, make money and stuff. I think. Or maybe it would help me … Continue reading →

Posted in TV, Unbelievable | 3 Comments

A double clickwheel with cheese

Posted on January 7, 2009 by Grant

Yesterday I got forwarded this video no fewer than six times. Strangely enough I didn’t see the part where they talked about it during the Macworld keynote. Maybe that’s because I haven’t watched the keynote. Or perhaps because it is … Continue reading →

Posted in Apple, Food | 1 Comment

“It’s not a tumor.” –Arnold

Posted on January 1, 2009 by Grant

So I have this Windows box that I use occasionally that was really low on disk space. I mean crazy low. I mean queue the limbo music how low can you go low. Only problem was that for the life … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment