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2016-04-21

• 20:18 UTC (new) (history) 2016-04-21 Pen up and down, reloaded . . . . Marcin Borkowski – OK, so today a short post, since it’s quite late here. I thought that making a single button for toggling the pen state (up/down) would be simple. Nothing like that. Here’s the question: if the text on the button says “on”, soes it mean that it is turned on, or that pressing it will turn it on?

2016-04-19

• 20:21 UTC (new) (history) 2016-04-19 Plans, update . . . . Marcin Borkowski – OK, it might seem that I’ve been procrastinating on Logeox. It’s true (to some extent), but it’s not like I forgot about it or did nothing. Thing is, I hit a wall. I thought that writing unit tests for my simplest class (which is TurtlePoint) will be a 20-minutes easy ride, and after such test training I’ll be able to write tests for more complex classes. Nope.

2016-04-16

• 06:36 UTC (new) (history) 2016-04-16 Things I hate, part I . . . . Marcin Borkowski – OK, so Android Studio told me to upgrade itself to version 2.1β, promising (among other things) a faster emulator. Wow, how nice. I did the upgrade… …and my project ceased to compile. How rude.

2016-04-14

• 18:21 UTC (new) (history) 2016-04-14 Plans . . . . Marcin Borkowski – It’s been some time since I posted something Logeox-related – real life struck again, and I also had some other project I wanted to hack on for a while. But I didn’t forget about Logeox and the contest, and so I’m back.

2016-04-12

• 19:22 UTC (new) (history) 2016-04-12 Showing some of those Async Shell Command buffers . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Last time, I showed how to make those pesky *Async Shell Command* buffers disappear (or more precisely, how not to make them appear in the first place). I briefly mentioned that sometimes it might be useful to actually see them. Well, here’s the way.

2016-04-09

• 11:17 UTC (new) (history) 2016-04-09 Choosing the unit turning angle . . . . Marcin Borkowski – I think this is one of these tiny details which make the UX better or worse, so let us look a bit into this issue: what should be the “unit” turning angle for the turtle?

2016-04-07

• 19:21 UTC (new) (history) 2016-04-07 Hiding those annoying Async Shell Command buffers . . . . Marcin Borkowski – I use async-shell-command (M-&) quite often. (I usually ran just shell-command, by default bound to M-!, and added an ampersand at the end, until I learned about M-&.) However, when I do it, one thing annoys me a lot: the *Async Shell Command* buffers. Most of the time I don’t really care about them, since I do not want to see any standard output from async commands (like evince, a pdf viewer, or libreoffice, an office suite). Of course, this is Emacs, so I should be able to configure that, right? Right.

2016-04-05

• 19:40 UTC (new) (history) 2016-04-05 Finding Nemo, er, Turtle . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Yesterday was a refactoring day: I shuffled the code a bit, made it suck a bit less (for instance, I changed most of my doubles into floats, added some methods to separate responsibilities better, etc.) But the big thing today was solving the problem of the runaway turtle.

2016-04-02

• 19:29 UTC (new) (history) 2016-04-02 Pen up and down, smoke test and UI considerations . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Yesterday was an interesting day for Logeox. First of all, I added the pen up/pen down feature. It was quite easy under the hood: just add a Boolean field to the Turtle object, and generate getters and setters (I still honestly don’t know why). Then, in the goForward method, use lineTo or moveTo depending on the pen state.

2016-03-30

• 20:36 UTC (new) (history) 2016-03-30 Turtle uncloaking . . . . Marcin Borkowski – I know, I know. I was supposed to write something about the horizontal layout. But this will have to wait, since I have a sexier thing to talk about. After some hiatus from Logeox, my turtle is finally visible! And here’s the proof:

2016-03-27

• 06:53 UTC (new) (history) 2016-03-27 Bad news and Good News . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Bad news is that you’re a sinner and deserve to die. (Me, too.) Good News is that you no longer have to: Jesus did it //for you//. What’s more, He has risen from the dead and lives forever. And so can you. Will you join? Now let us sing with our Mother, the Holy Catholic Church: Hallelujah!

2016-03-26

• 17:11 UTC (new) (history) 2016-03-26 What and how I’m learning . . . . Marcin Borkowski – For today, I decided to write a “softer” post about my learning process. (I did not abandon coding, but I slowed down a bit, because life (spending half a day in hospital is no fun) and because of preparation for the most important holiday of the year. I did tinker a bit, though – for instance, I switched from lines to paths, as promised. I also started working on horizontal layout, though it is a tad trickier than I thought. Expect a short post on that soon after Easter!) Quite a few other people decided to learn about Android, too, so it might make some sense to share some learning materials.

2016-03-24

• 21:24 UTC (new) (history) 2016-03-24 Beeminder.el – a follow-up . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Some time ago I wrote about a Beeminder client I wrote for Emacs. I mentioned then that I want to make it a bit more sophisticated. And so I did. Since then, it got quite a few features.

2016-03-23

• 17:07 UTC (diff) (history) Comments on 2016-02-20 Iedit mode . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Well, I didn't know that, but from what I heard about helm, I'm hardly surprised... Maybe I'll try helm at some point, but after ido (which I didn't . . .

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