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Another Weekend of Code

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Josh Kim
on December 11, 2007
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This past weekend was well spent, inside. Good thing I had enough food to last through the insanity that is freezing rain.

Definitely made some headway into what I wanted to do with the projects I have. Wrote some code, but mostly throwaway. Looked into a lot of the new Rails 2.0 stuff, but only to realize how little Rails I know period. Also added a third to HanMeta, and I hope to keep adding more people as time passes, and… you know… as I get grander ideas. I’m sure I’ll tap on some shoulders as time passes.

And hopefully, soon enough, LLC is in the future. Need a lawyer and an accountant… yikes.

And that’s all the update I have with regards to HanMeta. I have some nice wrist support gloves to aid me in my wrist painness and it feels like they are working.

Ch-check It Out

Published
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Josh Kim
on August 31, 2007
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Check-ch-check-check-check-ch-check it out

What-wha-what-what-what’s it all about

Work-wa-work-work-work-wa-work it out

Let’s turn this turn this party out

Sidenote: Indeed, this is the clean version.

This ditty has been stuck in my head for the past week. And there is no sign of stopping.

I guess in one sense, this song could just mean subversion checkouts. But that’d be too nerdy, and so I’ll stop there.

Another stanza of goodness:

Now remain calm no alarm

Cause my farm ain’t fat

So what’s up with that

I’ve got friends and family that i respect

When i think i’m too good

They put me in check

So believe when i say i’m no better than you

Except when i rap

So i guess it ain’t true

Like that y’all and you just don’t stop

Guaranteed to make your body rock

Just replace “rap” with “code”. This song is sick.

wasdfps

Published
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Josh Kim
on February 22, 2007
in Video Games and Web Development
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Lent commitment included nothing about games… crap. Games stopped “playing” (Pun! YES! BINGO!) any discernible role in my life maybe a year ago, so I guess I kinda left them out.

Okay, let me vent a little bit, before I go back and start to cry, looking at my code.

Right now, I feel like my code is shooting me in the face. With an AWP. (Oh, I miss those days… sorta kinda… all those wasted hours on a silly game from the 90s…) I have no weapons to speak of. (Do I get points for really bad metaphors, too?) I’m having one of the hardest times figuring out why my “include” and “require” aren’t doing as they’re supposed to be.

Sidenote: Currently working on: Google SOAP calls to customize the Google search page. All I have to do is include NuSOAP. What the heck is going on? (And like half the links to the sourceforge for NuSOAP is down for some random reason…)

Now… Wasn’t That Roundabout

Okay, back to the point of the post.

  • WASD: the four buttons needed for any first person shooter game
  • ASDF: just another ridiculous computer nerd “joke”… I love typing “asdf”…
  • FPS: first person shooter

Add the three together to get: wasdfps. I have no idea why this is funny. In about 30 seconds, I’m going to look back and say, “who wrote this garbage?”.

Regardless, this sucker’s copyrighted JK 2007 style.

Okay, back to work.

Zone?

Published
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Josh Kim
on February 19, 2007
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I’m up customizing a Educational CMS (moodle) for College of Education. Dang, it feels good.

I haven’t been up this late for quite some time. I’ve forgotten how much I enjoy being in the zone like this.

32 oz of Dew and some snacks (this time, Sun Chips) 4 hours ago, I feel completely wiped. Too bad I have my admissions interview for the MBA program at UIUC at 10:15.

I really wanted to write a proposal for how I was going to spend this week today, but I ran out of time.

This past week had a lot of inefficiencies. I napped excessively… I mean, I don’t think I’ve ever napped this much in a week in my entire life (including when I was an infant… I’m told I didn’t nap very much back then… maybe it’s catching up to me…).

And then… about cooking. I’m going to give up on getting better in this area. It’s not worth the time right now… I do, however, like figuring out efficient ways of saving time and money and effort in providing sustenance for myself. I just need to make sure that my desire to improve this skill is kept in check.

I think that’s all I’ve got left in me today.

[THUD]

The proper motivation?

Published
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Josh Kim
on February 10, 2007
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I guess it took a good friend from back way back when… WAYYY back when I was a freshman in college to push me into “code mode”. [Insert Age Joke Here, for all you freshmen that are reading this...] Derek Remund, a totally cool and amazing guy that God placed into my life, just as I was beginning to realize what computers were all about.

He’s taking this sweet class called Programming Studio, a class I would have dearly enjoyed. You see, my education at UIUC comprised of quite a bit of theory, and very little hands-on-ness. I mean, there are benefits for being taught hard-core theory, but there’s nothing like actually putting code to compiler (in my case, code to browser incompatibility insanity).

I had the pleasure of talking with him on the intricacies of web mashups. What little knowledge I had of JSON and REST and other subjects to do with cross-site scripting methodologies, I tried to pass on to him.

Of course, this was no one way street in terms of information exchange. I keep looking at Derek, and am amazed at how deeply he understands the code. He is the closest thing I have to a hacker: I’m so thankful to have a friend that can give me this kind of point of view on the subject.

We jokingly talked about how a couple years from now, we’d be talking about this past Thursday night, when wearing our maroon hoodies we came up with the idea for the next big thing. We didn’t, but I’m still searching.

Whatever we talked about, whatever we joked about… it seemed like it was towards something. I definitely need to find many more friends like this… not in separate geographic locations (like Texas and Ohio), but all in the same place. Well… at least, leverage technology (uh oh… Josh is using the word “leverage”) so that we could all sit down and talk about these issues. Maybe I’m wanting too much… can’t have all my friends work together.

Manager JK is slowly being cultivated, spouting off buzzwords and management techniques like no other. Uh oh… time to go learn some more Ruby to stave it off.