This wiffleball pitch starts fast and high and then the bottom drops on it. It hit the bottom PVC crossbar of the regulation strike zone so fast that it popped straight up in the air. The video shows the pitch at real time and then at 60% slow-motion speed, with red lines to show the…
A coder’s moment: Where did these 1004 lines of code come from?
I just had a coder’s moment. I’m debugging an application now that I’ve been working on for nearly 3 months. I’m inside one class, scanning the code to add a conditional and it hits me: ‘Where did all this code come from?’. What started with 3 lines of Flex auto-generated mxml is now 1004 lines…
See RED: Ultra HD Video at 12,065,000 pixels
The RED camera, from Jim Jannard (founder and CEO of Oakley), is now available for purchase. If you can afford it, the 12,065,000 pixel-capable camera can be yours for $17,500, and that’s for the camera body only. For an additional $1,250 you can compliment your camera with a mount, handle, shoulder pad and cradle. Oh, and don’t forget a…
JetBlue’s inFlight Mashup feat. Google Maps
Having flown JetBlue between Boston and San Jose very frequently over the last 2 years, I had grown accustomed to seeing the very useful flight tracker powered by Mapquest (old flickr photo). For those who have never been on JetBlue (or flew Delta’s Song airline, when it was in service), the flight tracker shows you…
Father’s Day of Dreams
I spent my first Father’s Day at the Red Sox game where they completed a sweep of the San Francisco Giants. The game was only but a warm-up to the post-game festivities. The Red Sox invited all fathers and sons in attendance to come play catch on Fenway’s sacred field. And so I, along with…
Chase at the ballgame
Chase attended his first Major League Baseball game, seeing the Red Sox play the Oakland A’s. His first trip to Fenway Park will be June 17th, Father’s Day. The match up will be a special one as the Red Sox play the San Francisco Giants in Boston. Should Chase continue to grow up in the Bay…
On Baseball, Red Sox lead over Yanks is money better spent
It’s the end of May and the Red Sox and in first place and the Yankees are in last! But that’s not the story. A total of 13.5 games separate the two teams. That means that in order for the Yankees to get out of the gutter and into first place, a combination of 2…
Yahoo! Maps Enhancements and Easter eggs
A recent report says that Yahoo! Maps has about 29.4 million users, easily making it one of the most popular and visited Flex applications ever. Some recent improvements should push that number higher and I’m happy to see my favorite Easter egg has survived. Congrats to the entire Yahoo! Maps team for recently adding some…
Meet the new Blog
Something magical happened last week when, while reviewing my weekly stats I noticed that this blog I write had attracted over 1,000 unique visitors in a single day. What was even more astounding was that those visitors hit over 5,000 pages. Under most circumstances, that kind of news/milestone would motivate one to begin taking their…
Pacifier Magic
It’s an amazing device, this pacifier…