What’s in my bag.
March 13th, 2005
My contribution to the what’s in your bag photomeme on Flickr. Note that the pencil case is also examined.
dsandler.org
I am currently a software engineer at Google, where as a member of the Android platform team I build frameworks and user interfaces.
The blog here at dsandler.org is mostly historical; you can find more recent posts on Google+.
Archive for March, 2005
Notes from the GDC
March 13th, 2005
Alice Taylor has been taking meticulous notes from the Game Developer’s Conference in San Francisco. Starting at the end, take a look at the Game Developer’s Rant, which is a hilarious panel discussion with some deep insights too:
Vanity Card #133
March 11th, 2005
“There was a scene in this episode which was drastically cut down in order to appease the censors.” Thus begins the vanity card appended to this week’s episode of Two And A Half Men by the show’s creator, Chuck Lorre, as he has done throughout the show’s run. [You can read all of them on his website.]
Staticized!
March 11th, 2005
(There we go, blowing my whole bang-quota for today, just in the title.) So, all this fancy tagging is placing a non-trivial load on the DB; typical page generation takes about 4 or 5 seconds, which really sucks for a front page.
2005: tagged.
March 11th, 2005
I went through and added tags for all of this year’s entries. That’s 2½ months down—just 42 more to go!
Subverting old habits
March 10th, 2005
In between errands (isn’t that what spring break is for—to be able to accomplish tasks which require you to be available during business hours?), I’m getting my bit-house in order. That’s right, it’s time to make a long-term commitment to svn.
You’re It.
March 9th, 2005
I’ve been using del.icio.us for several months now; in that time, my brain has readily adapted to ad-hoc tag-based classification of objects. I had originally intended for this version of dsandler.org to use only a couple of very broad categories (notebook, sketchbook, and scrapbook), but now that just seems quaint and ineffective.
So, I took action.
newer: Subverting old habits
older: ‘battery’ script for Mac portables