The virtues of singular exits

I’m reminded now about the virtues of singular exits – that is, functions with only one exit point. I was a bit lazy while writing the FAT driver code, and put in a bazillion exit points. The only thing that was really surprising about that, in hindsight, is how long I managed to get away… Read more

WWDC Wrap-up

I sit right now in San Francisco International Airport, in the gate lounge along with a good dozen or so of my compatriots, many sporting the popular “Veni. Vidi. Codi.” shirts from the conference. We’re all flying out together on the same flight, which starts boarding in a little over an hour and a half.… Read more

WWDC 2006: Day 0

Today was Student Sunday – a special day for WWDC student attendees with presentations from various people and a chance to get acclimated and socialised. It ran a bit smoother than last year, although was less hands on; last year they ran a CoreData lab (full of shiny iMacs) which Wil Shipley directed with the… Read more

WWDC 2006: Day -1

I had planned on going down to Mt. Eliza Thursday afternoon, after the NET lab tour of the tunnels and the ITS server room, but Roxanne called up Wednesday with a bit of a problem – her computer was acting oddly and her files were gone. Long story short it appears her brother ran the… Read more

Ahoy

So I did survive the trip. It went quite well in fact. I don’t have time to write anything right now, but I’ll try to throughout today, and get some photos up.

Return to kayaking

Tonight I went to kayaking for the first time in a while… about a month or so. I was in two minds a bit, because I was rather tired today – I stayed up a bit late, and given I had a 10am lecture, subsequently didn’t get much sleep. But once I was there and… Read more

Ah… that’s why

I think I mentioned a little while ago that I cop a surprising amount of flack as a result of things I write here. Quite often it’s about things that I never even slightly anticipated being an issue. Then last week I apparently put Sarah out quite a bit with my write up on paintball.… Read more