darkwyrm's blog

Programming Lesson 3

Blog post by darkwyrm on Sat, 2010-01-30 01:32
, ,

Continued (mis)adventures in programming for all of the curious into the insights of being a codemonkey. In this lesson, we examine the different types of data we can use, a more in-depth look at how to print to the screen, and more! Learning to Program With Haiku, Lesson 3.pdf All previous lessons have received some minor revisions and code is now colored for better readability.

Programming Lesson 2

Blog post by darkwyrm on Sat, 2010-01-23 01:46
, ,

A week or so later, there is another lesson for download. These are meant to go at a reasonable pace to ensure that the concepts presented are learned well. Enjoy! Learning to Program with Haiku, Lesson 2

Calling All Haiku Developer Wannabes

Blog post by darkwyrm on Wed, 2010-01-20 13:50
, ,

Have you ever wanted to learn to program for Haiku (or something else) but never had the money or the chance? Has something else gotten in the way? Even though I still don't have any real motivation to write code, right now I have plenty of motivation for writing about code.

I'm going to be publishing online programming lessons whenever I have some time. Usually this will be about one per week, but may happen more or less often on occasion, depending on how my spare time runs. These lessons will be available in PDF form under a Creative Commons license that will give me some options should I ever want to publish them in dead tree format.

Considering that I write fairly well and I've been teaching for more than 10 years now, this is quite an opportunity for someone who wants to learn to code. To kick things off, here's the first one. Learning to Program With Haiku, Lesson 1.

Ohio Linux Fest... What a Ride!

Blog post by darkwyrm on Sun, 2009-09-27 19:13
, ,

Well, for not having been doing hardly anything Haiku-related in the last month or so, this kind of made up for it. It all started with almost not getting a table at the conference and then on Wednesday--if I remember correctly, that is-- suddenly having one by the power of Greyskull, um, I mean Koki. ;-) This meant a flurry of e-mails, burning what remaining CDRs I had around the house, quickly putting together a Haiku demo machine, and a host of other details.

I arrived at the Greater Columbus Convention Center at about 7:15 am to set up and was quickly met by Michael Summers, whom I've known since the first WalterCon years ago, and Joe Prostko. We had been concerned about not having a projector, particularly on such short notice, but as we found out, it wasn't really necessary. We had a six-foot table, Joe's MSI Wind netbook, my Thinkpad R40 laptop, some live CDs, a bunch of fliers Urias had sent us, a couple of chairs, and some great neighbors in the non-profit section: the Northeast Ohio Open Source Society (NOOSS) and The Linux Link Tech Show (TLLTS). Setting up didn't take long, and even at that early hour there were already a lot of people there besides the sponsors.

R2 Desktop Proposal Rev. 2, Requesting Comments

Blog post by darkwyrm on Fri, 2008-11-07 00:12
,

I just finished (finally) consolidating the two R2-related RFCs that I've written and revising them, and I'd appreciate comments, criticism, etc. You can get it from this link. If you have an opinion on what Haiku should look like, I'd genuinely appreciate your input. :)

R2 R&D: The Filer

Blog post by darkwyrm on Sat, 2008-08-09 21:55
,

Being a go-getter kind of person has, on occasion, actually gotten me somewhere besides into a mess. With having significantly more free time than usual because of being on summer vacation, I decided to work on a document which combined two RFCs I have already written, which can be found here and here. Knowing how it seems like discussions on R2 usability seem to be both endless and unproductive, I decided to put some the ideas into code before publishing it in an effort to demonstrate that most, if not all, of the ideas I propose are practical, reasonable, and worth implementing for the second version of the community's beloved OS. The first of these to see public eye is the Filer.

Who is Joe User?

Blog post by darkwyrm on Mon, 2007-07-09 12:45

A couple of articles I just read (here and its rebuttal) are written by Linux users about why Linux is the best and how to get a regular person (hereafter referred to as Joe User) to start using Linux. To save you the time of reading the two articles, the first is entitled "Understanding the Common User: Everything should be as simple as it is, " by Keyto. The article is partly about how a Common User thinks, but primarily that quite a lot of the problem with Linux is the current users -- geeks who have trouble relating to Joe at Joe's level of expertise instead of the geek's level.

Syndicate content