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Buckblog: Mazes for Programmers: Beta!
http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2015/2/4/mazes-for-programmers-beta.html
Maze book for programmers! Algorithms, circle mazes, hex grids, masking, weaving, braiding, 3D and 4D grids, spheres, and more! Assorted ramblings by Jamis Buck. Mazes for Programmers: Beta! Mdash; The author announces the beta availability of his new book, "Mazes for Programmers", and invites the reader to participate in its completion by offering feedback, corrections, and suggestions — 2-minute read. Is out in beta and is available for purchase! That’s where you come in. More clearly in the book. (.
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Buckblog: Category: life
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Maze book for programmers! Algorithms, circle mazes, hex grids, masking, weaving, braiding, 3D and 4D grids, spheres, and more! Assorted ramblings by Jamis Buck. Being a Good Neighbor. Mdash; Some reflections on what it means to be a "good neighbor" — 6-minute read. Hanging Out a Shingle. Mdash; Our hero's plans change, and his journey takes an unexpected turn. — 1-minute read. Getting Back in the Pool. Mdash; A new member of the Buck family is introduced — 1-minute read. 20 May 2006 — 1-minute read.
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Buckblog: Category: under the hood
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Maze book for programmers! Algorithms, circle mazes, hex grids, masking, weaving, braiding, 3D and 4D grids, spheres, and more! Assorted ramblings by Jamis Buck. A Better Recursive Division Algorithm. Maze Generation: More weave mazes. Mdash; A technique is demonstrated, giving finer configuration of weave density in random mazes, courtesy of Kruskal's algorithm — 7-minute read. Maze Generation: Weave mazes. Weave Mazes: Your Take? Maze Generation: Algorithm Recap. Maze Generation: Sidewinder algorithm.
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Buckblog: Skinny Controller, Fat Model
http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2006/10/18/skinny-controller-fat-model
Maze book for programmers! Algorithms, circle mazes, hex grids, masking, weaving, braiding, 3D and 4D grids, spheres, and more! Assorted ramblings by Jamis Buck. Skinny Controller, Fat Model. Mdash; The "Fat Controller" anti-pattern is shown and dissected, and the reader is taken through the process of refactoring it into a more readable, maintainable, and testable solution — 5-minute read. Last name, first name. People.reject { p p.address.nil? Person.last name %. Person.first name %. And find the HTML.
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Buckblog: Vim Follow-up
http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2008/11/17/vim-follow-up
Maze book for programmers! Algorithms, circle mazes, hex grids, masking, weaving, braiding, 3D and 4D grids, spheres, and more! Assorted ramblings by Jamis Buck. Mdash; The fallout from the author's return to Vim is recounted, with a review of tips and plugins that have been found to be particularly useful — 4-minute read. So, it’s been over a month and a half since I switched back to Vim. And I figured I’d post a bit about how things are going. I’ve got my Leader character (. Let mapleader = ",". Spaces...
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Buckblog: Category: reviews
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Maze book for programmers! Algorithms, circle mazes, hex grids, masking, weaving, braiding, 3D and 4D grids, spheres, and more! Assorted ramblings by Jamis Buck. Mdash; The second Capistrano tutorial session started rocky, but finished well — 1-minute read. Advanced Rails Recipes and Capistrano. Mdash; Praise for "Mike Clark's Advanced Rails Recipes" book — 1-minute read. Mdash; The author reviews his experiences at Ostrava on Rails in the Czech Republic — 3-minute read. 15 May 2005 — 3-minute read.
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Buckblog: Category: odds & ends
http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/odds-and-ends
Maze book for programmers! Algorithms, circle mazes, hex grids, masking, weaving, braiding, 3D and 4D grids, spheres, and more! Assorted ramblings by Jamis Buck. Jamis and Marcel at MountainWest RubyConf 2007. Mdash; Announcing the video of a presentation in which the author and Marcel Molina co-delivered a live code review — 1-minute read. Kestrel" is taken.and how! Mdash; On the difficulty of naming things, and the absurdity of patents with over-applied buzzwords — 1-minute read. The Horror of Blimps.
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Buckblog: Coming home to Vim
http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2008/10/10/coming-home-to-vim
Maze book for programmers! Algorithms, circle mazes, hex grids, masking, weaving, braiding, 3D and 4D grids, spheres, and more! Assorted ramblings by Jamis Buck. Coming home to Vim. Mdash; 4-minute read. Over three years ago, I was faced with a dilemma. I had recently switched to the Mac (from Linux) and was still using my text editor of choice ( vim. But at the time, vim’s integration with OS X. Sometimes, though, late at night, I would think again of vim. Version of vim now, MacVim. This last week I’ve...
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Buckblog: Task Tracking for Neurochemical Brains
http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2015/3/17/task-tracking-for-neurochemical-brains.html
Maze book for programmers! Algorithms, circle mazes, hex grids, masking, weaving, braiding, 3D and 4D grids, spheres, and more! Assorted ramblings by Jamis Buck. Task Tracking for Neurochemical Brains. Mdash; Presenting a simple (and perhaps very unoriginal) technique for keeping track of a list of tasks in the face of interruption and exploration — 4-minute read. The problem is this: with multiple tasks in the air at once, how do you keep track of where you’re at on each of them? Suffices for me.) T...
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