http://mattfaus.com/blog Sun, 14 Sep 2008 23:14:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I am still seeing quite a bit of traffic to this old blog, and I wanted everyone to know that my new blog (with my wife Ashley) is located at http://mattfaus.com/matt/. Also, my new picture gallery is at http://mattfaus.com/pics/. http://mattfaus.com/blog/2008/09/14/this-blog-has-moved/ Well, after graduation, wedding, honeymoon, and the trek to San Francisco, we are getting close to establishing a semi-normal lifestyle again. We signed the lease and got the keys to the condo we will be living in for at least the next year. I have ordered high speed ... http://mattfaus.com/blog/2008/06/18/whew-were-getting-close/ One of the greatest schools for studying Computer Science is Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Luckily, MIT has opened up all courses with their OpenCourseWare program. So, you can teach yourself all MIT courses at home! This includes video recordings of all lectures, homework assignments (with selected answers), ... http://mattfaus.com/blog/2008/04/30/a-great-and-fun-way-to-study/ flock is literally part of the fabric of our social, cultural and economic history Apparently, flocking is the technique used to give certain surfaces more interesting demeanor. We all know and love flocking, but if you've ever wanted to dive into the depths of flocking and how it has changed ... http://mattfaus.com/blog/2008/04/25/flockage/ It is rare that the work I do in academia can be appreciated by non-geeks, so here is a link to a presentation I gave in my Technical Communication class. I'm a pretty big nerd, so I know it's not the best presentation in the world, but I think ... http://mattfaus.com/blog/2008/04/21/intro-to-infopath-presentation/ Stumbled upon this today as I was working on my Database Design project. Thought it was pretty interesting. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undecimber http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/util/Calendar.html#UNDECIMBER http://mattfaus.com/blog/2008/04/21/the-13th-month-undecimber/ As I was working on my distributed agreement protocol project for my advanced operating systems class I wanted to see how many lines of code I had written so far. As fate may have it, it was exactly 1000 at that instant. {net33} wc -l ./*.cpp ... http://mattfaus.com/blog/2008/04/19/rarity/ http://mattfaus.com/blog/2008/04/11/joy/ Recently, I was searching around for how to obtain the current day's datetime using a SQL query in SQL Server Management studio. I know I had obtained this value from MySQL with NOW() function, but could find nothing of the sort for Microsoft's SQL Server. After digging around ... http://mattfaus.com/blog/2008/02/16/ms-sql-server-transact-sql-now-function/ While Googling around for the phrase "gcc thread sleep" to get started on my distributed operating system project I discovered that bird lovers also love their acronyms! I thought it was kind of funny. Cuddly Green Cheek Conure http://mattfaus.com/blog/2008/01/15/gcc-green-cheek-conure/