<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Bens Log]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is where I write my thoughts.]]></description><link>https://www.bensnider.com</link><generator>GatsbyJS</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2022 20:11:41 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[iOS Weekly Minute - May 19, 2018]]></title><description><![CDATA[Big Announcements Being a few weeks out from WWDC means that Apple is hunkering down as it preps and polishes not only the keynotes and…]]></description><link>https://www.bensnider.com/posts/ios-weekly-minute-may-19-2018/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bensnider.com/posts/ios-weekly-minute-may-19-2018/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[iOS Weekly Minute - May 12, 2018]]></title><description><![CDATA[Big Announcements Well, it's not huge news, but Apple's about to start requiring apps to be built with the iOS 11 SDK. They do this every…]]></description><link>https://www.bensnider.com/posts/ios-weekly-minute-may-12-2018/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bensnider.com/posts/ios-weekly-minute-may-12-2018/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[iOS Weekly Minute - May 6, 2018]]></title><description><![CDATA[Big Announcements New this week is an article from Gruber outlining how Marzipan was never the name for the rumored cross-platform revamp…]]></description><link>https://www.bensnider.com/posts/ios-weekly-minute-may-6-2018/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bensnider.com/posts/ios-weekly-minute-may-6-2018/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[iOS Weekly Minute - April 21, 2018]]></title><description><![CDATA[Big Announcements All's quiet on the Cupertino Front these days as Apple is inevitably gearing up for WWDC. On that note, Apple is notifying…]]></description><link>https://www.bensnider.com/posts/ios-weekly-minute-april-21-2018/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bensnider.com/posts/ios-weekly-minute-april-21-2018/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[iOS Weekly Minute - April 13, 2018]]></title><description><![CDATA[Big Announcements The biggest news to hit the community are the global app store metrics collected by appfigures that show the absolute…]]></description><link>https://www.bensnider.com/posts/ios-weekly-minute-april-13-2018/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bensnider.com/posts/ios-weekly-minute-april-13-2018/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2018 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[iOS Weekly Minute - April 6, 2018]]></title><description><![CDATA[Big Announcements The big news in the Swift community is the announcement of the Swift for Tensorflow project. It's being spearheaded by…]]></description><link>https://www.bensnider.com/posts/ios-weekly-minute-april-6-2018/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bensnider.com/posts/ios-weekly-minute-april-6-2018/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2018 18:48:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[iOS Weekly Minute - March 30, 2018]]></title><description><![CDATA[Back on track this week with some small refinements. Enjoy! Big Announcements Apple Education Event Apple' Spring Event was held in a…]]></description><link>https://www.bensnider.com/posts/ios-weekly-minute-march-30-2018/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bensnider.com/posts/ios-weekly-minute-march-30-2018/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2018 18:40:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[iOS Weekly Minute - March 24, 2018]]></title><description><![CDATA[A bit of a day late and a dollar short on this one, but I'm mixing up the format and trying to streamline how I actually gather this content…]]></description><link>https://www.bensnider.com/posts/ios-weekly-minute-march-24-2018/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bensnider.com/posts/ios-weekly-minute-march-24-2018/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2018 10:40:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[iOS Weekly Minute - March 16, 2018]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lately, I've been running a little iOS centric get-together for a group of iOS developers, and for anyone else that might have a passing…]]></description><link>https://www.bensnider.com/posts/ios-weekly-minute-march-16-2018/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bensnider.com/posts/ios-weekly-minute-march-16-2018/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2018 19:28:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Swift 4 Blog Project Updates]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hark! The time is upon us for the great Swift 4 migration. Woe are the developers still using Swift 3. So say we all! And... with that out…]]></description><link>https://www.bensnider.com/posts/swift-4-blog-project-updates/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bensnider.com/posts/swift-4-blog-project-updates/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 06 Aug 2017 13:33:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wrapping C Code Within a Single Swift Package]]></title><description><![CDATA[Working with C code from Swift always seemed to me to be one of those dark arts that us well to do developers shouldn't need to dabble in…]]></description><link>https://www.bensnider.com/posts/wrapping-c-code-within-a-single-swift-package/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bensnider.com/posts/wrapping-c-code-within-a-single-swift-package/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2016 17:14:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Refactoring an MVVM App To Swift 3]]></title><description><![CDATA[Previously, as an exercise in converting an existing app to use a MVVM style architecture, and to make the code more Swifty, I refactored an…]]></description><link>https://www.bensnider.com/posts/refactoring-an-mvvm-app-to-swift-3/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bensnider.com/posts/refactoring-an-mvvm-app-to-swift-3/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2016 13:45:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[ABI Compatibility: Whoopdty Do, What Does It All Mean?]]></title><description><![CDATA[News of Swift 3.0 not having ABI compatibility in the upcoming release is rampant throughout the Twitter and blog spheres. I personally feel…]]></description><link>https://www.bensnider.com/posts/abi-compatibility-whoopdty-do-what-does-it-all-mean/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bensnider.com/posts/abi-compatibility-whoopdty-do-what-does-it-all-mean/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2016 22:48:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Making Swift Code More Swifty And An MVVM Aside]]></title><description><![CDATA[At May's Denver Swift Heads meetup, Vui Nguyen gave a great presentation on completing an interview algorithm puzzle. Her intro to the talk…]]></description><link>https://www.bensnider.com/posts/making-swift-code-more-swifty-and-an-mvvm-aside/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bensnider.com/posts/making-swift-code-more-swifty-and-an-mvvm-aside/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2016 21:02:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Getting Started with OpenWhisk Server Side Swift]]></title><description><![CDATA[With the burgeoning server side Swift movement picking up steam, some larger players have started incorporating Swift into their cloud…]]></description><link>https://www.bensnider.com/posts/getting-started-with-openwhisk-server-side-swift/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bensnider.com/posts/getting-started-with-openwhisk-server-side-swift/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 26 Mar 2016 14:15:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pi Day 2016 Project - PiLCD]]></title><description><![CDATA[Every year Pi Day rolls around and I always have the intention of creating some interesting Arduino (really hoping that gets easier to spell…]]></description><link>https://www.bensnider.com/posts/pi-day-2016-project-pilcd/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bensnider.com/posts/pi-day-2016-project-pilcd/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 13 Mar 2016 20:58:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Using swiftenv To Install and Manage Swift Versions]]></title><description><![CDATA[With the proliferation of Swift snapshot builds, and Apple's relatively high release cadence, managing Swift versions has come to be a bit…]]></description><link>https://www.bensnider.com/posts/using-swiftenv-to-install-and-manage-swift-versions/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bensnider.com/posts/using-swiftenv-to-install-and-manage-swift-versions/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2016 19:26:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Roadblocks When Making Cross Platform Command Line Swift Scripts]]></title><description><![CDATA[I set out with the intention of updating the Using Swift To Make Command Line Scripts post so that the script would run using the open…]]></description><link>https://www.bensnider.com/posts/roadblocks-when-making-cross-platform-command-line-swift-scripts/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bensnider.com/posts/roadblocks-when-making-cross-platform-command-line-swift-scripts/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2016 11:35:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Making a Slack Slash Command Integration using Swift on Heroku]]></title><description><![CDATA[A lot has changed in the open source Swift world in the past few weeks! The community has already provided some great coverage on the…]]></description><link>https://www.bensnider.com/posts/making-a-slack-slash-command-integration-using-swift-on-heroku/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bensnider.com/posts/making-a-slack-slash-command-integration-using-swift-on-heroku/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2015 21:38:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Swift Libraries That Are Open Source Swift Friendly]]></title><description><![CDATA[On the road to open source Swift, some enterprising developers have jumped ahead and started writing libraries, scripts, and apps with an…]]></description><link>https://www.bensnider.com/posts/swift-libraries-that-are-open-source-swift-friendly/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bensnider.com/posts/swift-libraries-that-are-open-source-swift-friendly/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2015 18:08:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Simple Programmer: Working on the Soft Skills]]></title><description><![CDATA[In my continual quest for knowledge, I don't always consume purely technical literature. I also like to read those books that teach us how…]]></description><link>https://www.bensnider.com/posts/the-simple-programmer-working-on-the-soft-skills/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bensnider.com/posts/the-simple-programmer-working-on-the-soft-skills/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2015 14:50:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Using Swift To Make Command Line Scripts - Part 2]]></title><description><![CDATA[Welcome back! In part one of this two part series, we got started using Swift along with OptionKit to build simple command line script. In…]]></description><link>https://www.bensnider.com/posts/using-swift-to-make-command-line-scripts-part-2/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bensnider.com/posts/using-swift-to-make-command-line-scripts-part-2/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2015 16:11:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Using Swift To Make Command Line Scripts - Part 1]]></title><description><![CDATA[Since we have no open source Swift yet to play with, I figure we have some time familiarize ourselves with what we currently have in Swift…]]></description><link>https://www.bensnider.com/posts/using-swift-to-make-command-line-scripts-part-1/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bensnider.com/posts/using-swift-to-make-command-line-scripts-part-1/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2015 20:01:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[No Open Source Swift Yet]]></title><description><![CDATA[Well, it's now November, 2015 and no word quite yet on the availability of an open source Swift offering from Apple. However, Chris Lattner…]]></description><link>https://www.bensnider.com/posts/no-open-source-swift-yet/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bensnider.com/posts/no-open-source-swift-yet/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2015 19:35:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Refocusing On Open Source Swift]]></title><description><![CDATA[I have finally decided to take up blogging here again. After some life
changes, a new job and a big move, I figured it was about time to…]]></description><link>https://www.bensnider.com/posts/refocusing-on-open-source-swift/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bensnider.com/posts/refocusing-on-open-source-swift/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2015 18:29:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[PiSeg Arduino Project]]></title><description><![CDATA[View the
sketch
for this project itself, along with the Fritzing file, in my GitHub
repository. This simple sketch displays the first…]]></description><link>https://www.bensnider.com/posts/piseg-arduino-project/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bensnider.com/posts/piseg-arduino-project/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:31:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Code Camp Columbus 2011]]></title><description><![CDATA[Last weekend I had the opportunity to attend Code Camp
Columbus for the first time. This is the
second year that the event has been held…]]></description><link>https://www.bensnider.com/posts/code-camp-columbus-2011/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bensnider.com/posts/code-camp-columbus-2011/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2011 16:14:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[COhPUG Monthly Meetup and FreeGeek]]></title><description><![CDATA[This week I think I've met my geek quota a little early, so hopefully I
can just cruise the rest of the week. I'm always pleasantly…]]></description><link>https://www.bensnider.com/posts/cohpug-monthly-meetup-and-freegeek/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bensnider.com/posts/cohpug-monthly-meetup-and-freegeek/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 22:07:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[FreeGeek Columbus Volunteering]]></title><description><![CDATA[I volunteered today for the first time at FreeGeek
Columbus. I got a tour from the staff,
which included a runaround of all the stacks of…]]></description><link>https://www.bensnider.com/posts/freegeek-columbus-volunteering/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bensnider.com/posts/freegeek-columbus-volunteering/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 21:46:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[s3cmd, Pelican, and You]]></title><description><![CDATA[Turns out uploading this blog to Amazon S3
using s3cmd is ridiculously simple. All I
have to do to sync the Pelican generated directory to…]]></description><link>https://www.bensnider.com/posts/s3cmd-pelican-and-you/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bensnider.com/posts/s3cmd-pelican-and-you/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 21:55:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keynote Speech at OLF 2011]]></title><description><![CDATA[This talk was given by Cathy Malmrose
of ZaReason and mostly consisted of her relating
how awesome it is to have an operating system that…]]></description><link>https://www.bensnider.com/posts/keynote-speech-at-olf-2011/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bensnider.com/posts/keynote-speech-at-olf-2011/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 21:23:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ohio LinuxFest 2011 Series]]></title><description><![CDATA[In this series of posts I will be review my experience at the 2011 Ohio
LinuxFest. I will be giving my opinions and
what I learned at the…]]></description><link>https://www.bensnider.com/posts/ohio-linuxfest-2011-series/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bensnider.com/posts/ohio-linuxfest-2011-series/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 21:01:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simple Pelican Blog Post Template Generator]]></title><description><![CDATA[I just finished a simple script that helps generate
Pelican
blog posts by printing out some reStructuredText, in the format Pelican
expects…]]></description><link>https://www.bensnider.com/posts/simple-pelican-blog-post-template-generator/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bensnider.com/posts/simple-pelican-blog-post-template-generator/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 20:55:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's Alive!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Finally got the new blog up and running. But I feel like I've learned
a lot about modern python development (github, pip, virtualenv, etc…]]></description><link>https://www.bensnider.com/posts/its-alive/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bensnider.com/posts/its-alive/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 02:08:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[NSZombie to the Freaking Rescue]]></title><description><![CDATA[So I've been beating my head against a wall the past few days trying to
cram as much Objective-C knowledge as possible and I think it's all…]]></description><link>https://www.bensnider.com/posts/nszombie-to-the-freaking-rescue/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bensnider.com/posts/nszombie-to-the-freaking-rescue/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 11:21:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exile Issue 1 Released]]></title><description><![CDATA[Exile Issue 1 Cover{width="600"} The game I've been working on at my day job
has been released. The first issue of
Exile is available today…]]></description><link>https://www.bensnider.com/posts/exile-issue-1-released/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bensnider.com/posts/exile-issue-1-released/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 22:22:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't Get Shot Released]]></title><description><![CDATA[Don't Get Shot The minigame I've been working on at my day job
has been released, play "Don't Get
Shot"
free at Kongregate. This minigame is…]]></description><link>https://www.bensnider.com/posts/dont-get-shot-released/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bensnider.com/posts/dont-get-shot-released/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 22:20:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lice Helper Launched]]></title><description><![CDATA[Recently finished and launched a new website for a client. The website
advertises a lice removal service and provides means for potential…]]></description><link>https://www.bensnider.com/posts/lice-helper-launched/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bensnider.com/posts/lice-helper-launched/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:23:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[ImageMagick Split and Join a Sprite Sheet]]></title><description><![CDATA[Continuing the Flixel theme
that seems to be brewing here, I found a good way to transform images
from full dimension art to sprite sheets…]]></description><link>https://www.bensnider.com/posts/imagemagick-split-and-join-a-sprite-sheet/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bensnider.com/posts/imagemagick-split-and-join-a-sprite-sheet/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:03:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flixel Pixel Perfect Collisions]]></title><description><![CDATA[I haven't found a decent source of information about this on the
interwebs so I thought I'd share my findings. Flixel doesn't have any
built…]]></description><link>https://www.bensnider.com/posts/flixel-pixel-perfect-collisions/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bensnider.com/posts/flixel-pixel-perfect-collisions/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:13:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flixel Puddles and Oil Slicks]]></title><description><![CDATA[I've been using the super cool
Flixel framework to make a
game and it's quite handy for most things. The game I'm working on is
basically a…]]></description><link>https://www.bensnider.com/posts/flixel-puddles-and-oil-slicks/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bensnider.com/posts/flixel-puddles-and-oil-slicks/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:46:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Computer Engineer Barbie]]></title><description><![CDATA[A coworker writes me saying: Please take a moment to vote for Barbie to become a Computer Engineer.
Future generations of computer engineers…]]></description><link>https://www.bensnider.com/posts/computer-engineer-barbie/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bensnider.com/posts/computer-engineer-barbie/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:10:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flash Draw Transparent BitmapData]]></title><description><![CDATA[Recently ran into an issue where I thought I should have been drawing a
transparent BitmapData object, but the resulting object had a white…]]></description><link>https://www.bensnider.com/posts/flash-draw-transparent-bitmapdata/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bensnider.com/posts/flash-draw-transparent-bitmapdata/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 11:17:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flex Scale Image to Max Dimension]]></title><description><![CDATA[Recently had a problem where I needed to display images as large as
possible within given bounds. So I made a handy little function that…]]></description><link>https://www.bensnider.com/posts/flex-scale-image-to-max-dimension/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bensnider.com/posts/flex-scale-image-to-max-dimension/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:21:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[This Is Not a |]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is not a | Saw this joke at this year's Ohio Linux Fest
during the closing talk, A Surfeit of
Sophistication which was
quite a good…]]></description><link>https://www.bensnider.com/posts/this-is-not-a/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bensnider.com/posts/this-is-not-a/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:09:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flash 10 Valid Vector Elements]]></title><description><![CDATA[Finally got around to learning about the new collection class available
in Flash 10. To be honest, I'm not terribly excited about many…]]></description><link>https://www.bensnider.com/posts/flash-10-valid-vector-elements/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bensnider.com/posts/flash-10-valid-vector-elements/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:29:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Copying a Flash MovieClip, or The Flash Holy Grail]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ran into a nice solution for copying arbitrary MovieClips at runtime
today. I am designing a spot the difference game akin to 6
Differences…]]></description><link>https://www.bensnider.com/posts/copying-a-flash-movieclip-or-the-flash-holy-grail/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bensnider.com/posts/copying-a-flash-movieclip-or-the-flash-holy-grail/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 19:41:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flexunit Asyncrhonous Setups]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you ever need to load some external data before running a test, or
need to wait for a component's creation complete event, then you know…]]></description><link>https://www.bensnider.com/posts/flexunit-asyncrhonous-setups/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bensnider.com/posts/flexunit-asyncrhonous-setups/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:56:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[FlashDevelop Setter and Getter Snippets]]></title><description><![CDATA[FlashDevelop, the Flash IDE I am using at the moment, has support for
saving snippets of code that is general and reusable, like setters and…]]></description><link>https://www.bensnider.com/posts/flashdevelop-setter-and-getter-snippets/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bensnider.com/posts/flashdevelop-setter-and-getter-snippets/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 19:02:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flex MenuItem Actions]]></title><description><![CDATA[So, gonna write this here because I will forget how to do it.
Essentially, this approach eliminates the need to conditionally branch
on menu…]]></description><link>https://www.bensnider.com/posts/flex-menuitem-actions/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bensnider.com/posts/flex-menuitem-actions/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:08:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[HP Laptop Linux Boot Parameters]]></title><description><![CDATA[Instead of me wracking my braing trying to remember the exact boot
parameters to make my HP laptop not break when I update the kernel, I am…]]></description><link>https://www.bensnider.com/posts/hp-laptop-linux-boot-parameters/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bensnider.com/posts/hp-laptop-linux-boot-parameters/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 13:32:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[World of Goo]]></title><description><![CDATA[Not often do I write personally here outside of programming, but I must
make an exception for World of Goo. It's a game unlike anything else…]]></description><link>https://www.bensnider.com/posts/world-of-goo/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bensnider.com/posts/world-of-goo/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:18:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google Chrome and Firefox 3 Benchmark Comparisons]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google released the beta for their new browser called Google Chrome and
one of the features they talked about was the new Javascript virtual…]]></description><link>https://www.bensnider.com/posts/google-chrome-and-firefox-3-benchmark-comparisons/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bensnider.com/posts/google-chrome-and-firefox-3-benchmark-comparisons/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:40:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenMP Examples]]></title><description><![CDATA[Here are some usage examples for the C++ library available in the GNU
C++ compiler versions 4.2 and up, and probably others. This first…]]></description><link>https://www.bensnider.com/posts/openmp-examples/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bensnider.com/posts/openmp-examples/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:31:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[CakePHP Getting Tree Path]]></title><description><![CDATA[In a reversal of yesterday's post is today's, getting a path to a node,
or nodes. Basically we just use the core getpath() function of the…]]></description><link>https://www.bensnider.com/posts/cakephp-getting-tree-path/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bensnider.com/posts/cakephp-getting-tree-path/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:06:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[CakePHP Tree Find By Path]]></title><description><![CDATA[Wrote these little functions to help with finding tree nodes by
specifying a path of values. For example if we had a tree of categories
with…]]></description><link>https://www.bensnider.com/posts/cakephp-tree-find-by-path/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bensnider.com/posts/cakephp-tree-find-by-path/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:11:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[CakePHP Lightbox Helper]]></title><description><![CDATA[Made a helper to output lightbox compatible links, since the core HTML
helper was not working. Stick the following code in
app/view/helpers…]]></description><link>https://www.bensnider.com/posts/cakephp-lightbox-helper/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bensnider.com/posts/cakephp-lightbox-helper/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:24:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Using Radio Buttons with CakePHP]]></title><description><![CDATA[There's sparse documentation on this topic so here I give some example
usages. Say we have a Posts model like in most of the cake documents…]]></description><link>https://www.bensnider.com/posts/using-radio-buttons-with-cakephp/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bensnider.com/posts/using-radio-buttons-with-cakephp/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:40:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dynamically Import and Instantiate Python Classes]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ran into this bit of genius code in the python mailing
list.
Here's the code for now and I'll explain it later: Basically it returns a class…]]></description><link>https://www.bensnider.com/posts/dynamically-import-and-instantiate-python-classes/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bensnider.com/posts/dynamically-import-and-instantiate-python-classes/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:18:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Getting the Owner of a File in Linux]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ran across this problem where I needed root to execute a script as
whoever owns it. The solution is simple and should work most everywhere…]]></description><link>https://www.bensnider.com/posts/getting-the-owner-of-a-file-in-linux/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bensnider.com/posts/getting-the-owner-of-a-file-in-linux/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:40:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[C++ Pointers and Incomplete Types]]></title><description><![CDATA[Learned some new things about C++ and pointers today. Namely that you
can declare a pointer member variable of the class A in class A…]]></description><link>https://www.bensnider.com/posts/c-pointers-and-incomplete-types/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bensnider.com/posts/c-pointers-and-incomplete-types/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:57:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Python Lies]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is probably a documented issue, but I think it deserves another
mention. Python lies, its the truth. Well, as much as an interpreter…]]></description><link>https://www.bensnider.com/posts/python-lies/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bensnider.com/posts/python-lies/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2008 19:13:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flixya Firefox Extension]]></title><description><![CDATA[I just recently finished up a Firefox Extension for the social video
site Flixya. Extensions are all written in
JavaScript and a sort of XML…]]></description><link>https://www.bensnider.com/posts/flixya-firefox-extension/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bensnider.com/posts/flixya-firefox-extension/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2007 23:12:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[LocalWineEvents.com Google Gadget]]></title><description><![CDATA[Just finished a Google Gadget for the
LocalWineEvents website. It uses the
Google Gadget API, of course, which is in JavaScript, XML, a…]]></description><link>https://www.bensnider.com/posts/localwineeventscom-google-gadget/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.bensnider.com/posts/localwineeventscom-google-gadget/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2007 19:49:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>