Monthly Archives: January 2009

Why you lose at bridge

Posted on 30 January, 2009 by Simeon

I have recently taken-up studying bridge, and picked up Why you lose at bridge at a second-hand book sale for $1. My first running joke was “I lose because I don’t play”, but jokes aside, it was a great read, … Continue reading →

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Creating Palette based GIFs

Posted on 26 January, 2009 by Simeon

A question was asked on the mailing list (ages ago) about creating 8-bit GIF files.  I proved this code for simple palette based GIFs, so here it is: I would change fillrect, to seperate out the locking, and Marshal calls, … Continue reading →

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Some great posts

Posted on 16 January, 2009 by Simeon

Firstly a good post about teaching programming, and the genesis of assignments: The Development Arc of a Program and a Teaching Idea which has a great link on how modern car/garage remotes work Secondly a post from way-back last year … Continue reading →

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