Irrational Exuberance

archive / 2008 / April

1. Title: Thoughts on Dating Erlang
   Tags: Erlang functional

   I have been working on a project using Erlang for the last few days, and have been enjoying it a good bit. Its given me a few topics to think about: message passing and functional string handling, among others.

2. Title: Haiku for an April
   Tags: haiku

   A few haiku with the overall polish and depth of an hour. Also some pictures from this past weekend, mostly of nature.

3. Title: Designing Elesma
   Tags: Cocoa Elesma

   A look at the rough UI and design of an application I am working on.

4. Title: A Week In The Job
   Tags: JET japan

   A look at a week in my job as a junior high school and elementary school ALT.

5. Title: Failed Night Time Pictures of Sakura Blossoms
   Tags: japan

   I tried to tackle the task of taking pictures of the blooming Sakura blossoms, but pretty much uniformly failed. I guess a one-handed gunslinger's approach to holding the camera might have contributed.

6. Title: A Brief Winter Hike
   Tags: hiking japan

   A few weeks ago I ended up on a short abortive hike on the third tallest mountain in Japan. Here are a few documenting pictures.

7. Title: Opening Files With Associated App in Cocoa
   Tags: Cocoa ObjC

   Recently I spent a while trying to figure out how to open files in my Cocoa app. Not just open them, but have the correct application launch with that file as an argument. I knew that Carbon achieved this with LaunchServices, but was unsure about the Cocoa equivalent to LaunchServices. But, it turns out to be quite easy to use. (Hint: its <strong>NSWorkspace</strong>.)