Author Archive
I Created A Book Page!
I decided to create a separate page for my books because I’ve started thinking about expanding the kinds of books I’m writing to include more than just books about robotics. Currently the books you will find on this page are just my robotics books, which have more detail at my Scott’sBots website, in the near [...]
New Book – Robotics Programming 101
I have self published my first book Robotics Programming 101. For this book I used CreateSpace for the soft cover and Kindle Direct Publishing for the Kindle version. All in all it was a good experience. I had more issues with formatting than I did writing the actual code and copy for the book. I was [...]
Goodbye Tressel
I had actually saw this coming, back in December of 2010 when things first broke. While what I heard was just a rumor, it seemed to have legs. I wish Fickell well in his first season and think that the players that the coach lost his career for work at a carwash next year instead [...]
RIP – Castle Preston
We lost our puppy of 6 years today due to complications from diabetes. We miss him a lot!
Photoshop Fonts Too Big?
I was struggling with this for a week. My 12px fonts were stuck at a DPI of 300 and I had no way to adjust them. I also had an older copy of Photoshop Elements 6, so my options I thought were limited. I even re-installed Photoshop but that did not succeed, how did I [...]
Thinking Different
I was refreshing some of my terminology over the past week when I came upon a post by Martin Fowler about Dependency Injection. I was reading this and I understood the words, but it really made no sense to me. Then I read another blog post by James Shore. It basically summed up dependency injection [...]
The Perfect Programmer or Remarkable?
What’s a perfect programmer? Someone that writes perfect code, writes perfect test, uses a perfect language or framework or uses the perfect methodology? I think there are plenty of good programmers, people that try to be perfect for their boss, or their peers, or because they might be a perfectionist. I think there are a lot [...]
iPad Screen Size in Safari
I was very surprised when I Googled the screen size for the iPad nothing showed up. I actually had to create a DIV and experiment until I found the correct size. The viewable area in landscape mode is 980×660. You can also adjust the viewport via: <meta name=”viewport” content=”width=device-width” /> which is what is recommended [...]
The Winning Team – The Real Answer
I hate blanket rules with no explanation. Having a winning team before starting a business is one of them. Book after book, or VC after VC will give that same advice without providing a logical underpinning, or reason for the advise. It’s akin to the teacher that says because I said so, rather than actually [...]
Books are not what they use to be.
I’ve struggled to put together a book idea into a coherent logical sequence. Something like: here’s the overall pattern/theme part 1 of pattern part 2 of pattern part 1 connects to part 2 like this but not like that summary of the pattern But I’ve noticed as I am reading (very popular books) that the [...]