https://www.brianbondy.com Brian R. Bondy's Blog - Coding, Running, and Life (Brian R. Bondy) Tue, 05 May 2026 20:23:21 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/static/img/avatar.png https://www.brianbondy.com 200 200 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/190/fighting-madness-tahoe-200 The Tahoe 200 is a 200-mile race surrounding the largest alpine lake in North America. Runners pass through aspen groves, rocky landscapes, crystal-blue lakes, dense forests, and long ridges with breathtaking views. Many say it feels like running through a painting. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/190 Tue, 01 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/189/49-hours-with-my-son-in-the-desert-sedona-canyons-125 The Sedona Canyons 125, often called the “half-Cocodona”, starts in Jerome, Arizona, and finishes in Flagstaff. The route winds through Sedona’s red rocks, climbs into the Coconino National Forest, and traverses remote desert trails. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/189 Sun, 22 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/188/can-confirm-hurt-100-hurts Suddenly my body was dangling with only 1 arm holding the narrow ledge of a mountain cliff in the rainforest. I grabbed onto something, probably a root on the trail and skinned my index finger as I tried to support my body weight. I tried to pull myself up and couldn’t. Someone running behind... Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/188 Mon, 20 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/187/cocodona-2024 The Cocodona 250 is an ultra-endurance race that tests even the most experienced runners. It spans over 250 miles, and traverses rugged landscapes of Arizona, up over 12,000 meters of elevation gain through technical trails, mountains, water crossings, and deserts. There are massive temperature... Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/187 Tue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/186/unwavering-dedication I’m not a religious person but I did go to a Catholic elementary school. I distinctly remember one day the local priest came to talk to the class. I often think about this day. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/186 Fri, 23 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/185/little-dog-s-backyard-ultra-take-2 Serg, a friend and colleague, crewed for me. We covered a 967km drive post-work on Thursday, reaching our destination by Friday afternoon to set up camp. The advantage of driving? I had all my gear at my fingertips. Given the convenience, I’d choose to drive again. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/185 Thu, 05 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/184/the-future-of-leo-a-roadmap-for-brave-s-built-in-ai-browser-assistant In August 2023, Brave released Leo, Brave’s native AI assistant, on its Nightly channel. Since then we’ve incorporated a lot of user feedback, and made numerous improvements to the feature. There are more changes on the way, and soon we will launch Leo on our full release channel,... Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/184 Wed, 20 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/183/achievement-unlocked On Saturday, June 3, 2023, 14 year old Ronnie set out to conquer his first 50-mile segment of the FAwR run. FAwR is a 100+ mile journey across Windsor-Essex Ontario, which can be completed in multiple chunks across an 8-day span. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/183 Mon, 05 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/182/cocodona-250 The racers experience a wide range of weather conditions, including scorching desert heat during daylight hours and cooler mountain temperatures during nighttime hours. This extraordinary yearly event pushes runners past their limits. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/182 Mon, 08 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/181/national-big-dog-s-backyard-ultra-world-championships-team-canada “Discomfort is the price of admission to a meaningful life” Susan David, PhD. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/181 Tue, 18 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/180/fawr-2022 This Saturday I took part in my favorite run of the year, a 103 mile run around Windsor-Essex county named the First Annual weUltra Run (FAwR). This weUltra event can be done in 1 chunk or across a couple weeks, known as a multi-chunk finish. It was my 4th year doing the FAwR and 21h 47min later,... Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/180 Sat, 04 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/179/perfect-conditions-at-the-perfect-pr-backyard-ultra This Saturday morning I took part in the Perfect PR Backyard Ultra at the beautiful Independence Oaks Park, Clarkston, MI. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/179 Mon, 23 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/178/little-dog-s-backyard-ultra-from-despair-to-naive-optimism Despair It’s past 8pm, I’m sitting on the edge of the road in the dark. It’s raining, I’m shivering, and I’m out of breath. I just threw up 5 times, I wipe the puke from my mouth and it washes away easily in the rain. I just need a few minutes to regroup. I get back up... Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/178 Sun, 03 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/177/ipfs-support-in-brave Over the past several months, the Brave team has been working with Protocol Labs on adding InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) support in Brave. This is the first deep integration of its kind and we’re very proud to outline how it works in this post. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/177 Tue, 19 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/176/diary-of-a-selfless-good-dog I was born today! Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/176 Mon, 17 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/175/my-first-100-mile-run-woodstock-hallucination It wasn’t until later in my life at the age of 29 (2010) that I got into running. To try and stay in shape, I took karate, but my karate dojo had just closed. Running seemed interesting to me, but my cardio was horrible. I went out for a 1k run and I was out of breath and quit 7 minutes... Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/175 Tue, 12 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/174/the-road-to-brave-1-0 Over the past 4 ½ years I’ve been helping to build a “big” new startup named Brave. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/174 Wed, 13 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/173/shutting-down-code-firefox On October 07, 2016 I’ll be shutting down Code Firefox. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/173 Fri, 08 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/172/brave-software We’re starting to bring people in for early developer build access on all platforms. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/172 Wed, 20 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/171/the-link-bubble-android-web-browser-has-gone-fully-free You can download Link Bubble on the Google play store today. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/171 Tue, 25 Aug 2015 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/170/thank-you-khan-academy-switching-careers Today is my last day at Khan Academy (KA). At just over a year, it was much less time than I’d like to have spent at KA. In the end though, I feel like it’s not the amount of time that you spend at a company that matters, but the impact that you made. I don’t regret one second of... Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/170 Fri, 29 May 2015 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/169/developing-and-releasing-the-khan-academy-firefox-os-app I’m happy to announce that the Khan Academy Firefox OS app is now available in the Firefox Marketplace! Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/169 Thu, 27 Nov 2014 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/168/sql-on-khan-academy-enabled-by-sqlite-sqljs-asm-js-and-emscripten Originally the computer programming section at Khan Academy only focused on learning JavaScript by using ProcessingJS. This still remains our biggest environment and still has lots of plans for further growth, but we recently generalized and abstracted the whole framework to allow for new... Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/168 Wed, 26 Nov 2014 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/167/automated-end-to-end-testing-at-khan-academy-using-gecko We have tons of JavaScript and Python unit tests, but they do not catch various errors that can only happen on the live site, such as Content Security Policy (CSP) errors. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/167 Tue, 25 Nov 2014 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/166/making-programming-easier-on-khan-academy-2014-hackathon-project The theme for my hackathon idea was to make programming easier on Khan Academy. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/166 Sun, 20 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/165/peer-evaluations-for-coding-projects-on-khan-academy We just launched a pretty big new feature in the Computer Science section of Khan Academy called peer evaluations. I blogged more about it here. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/165 Wed, 09 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/164/my-first-week-at-khan-academy I had an amazing first week at Khan Academy as a remote employee. My first week For the week I, finished and pushed out 12 bugs fixes, posted 7 bugs, got myself added to the team page, and did a deploy of the site. I felt productive largely thanks to having great docs, and great people who helped... Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/164 Sat, 26 Apr 2014 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/162/does-modern-ui-firefox-usage-indicate-windows-8-1-modern-ui-is-in-trouble On Friday, Mozilla announced it would not ship its Modern UI Firefox browser due to low adoption. Is Windows 8.1 modern UI in trouble? No. Did Mozilla make the right decision with Metro given the current circumstances? Yes. Modern UI Firefox usage, in Mozilla’s measurements, is not... Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/162 Tue, 18 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/160/switching-careers-next-steps I plan to remain a contributor, both on the Code Firefox site, and on Firefox Desktop itself. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/160 Fri, 14 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/158/investing-in-our-community-through-code-firefox Mozilla 2014 Goal As Deb Cohen (VP, Chief of People) said: Our goal this year is to find new ways for people to become part of us. This year we have a very aggressive goal, for all of us to look inside our teams, our work, our organization, and create some of these pathways. What is Code Firefox?... Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/158 Wed, 05 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/156/short-one-video-per-concept-firefox-development-videos I’d like to introduce a new site I’m working on named Code Firefox. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/156 Mon, 18 Nov 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/155/shared-profiles-for-metro-firefox-and-desktop-firefox We’ve had feedback around this, and we’ve found that a better experience would be obtained by sharing a single profile. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/155 Wed, 06 Nov 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/153/firefox-metro-preview-release-status-update-8 As per this Future of Firefox announcement, we have a work-in-progress, Metro Firefox preview! Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/153 Thu, 04 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/151/preparing-for-the-firefox-for-windows-8-metro-preview-status-update-7 As of the end of August, two awesome Mozilla hackers, Matt Brubeck and Frank Yan started tearing through front end bugs for the Metro browser. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/151 Tue, 18 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/150/firefox-for-windows-8-metro-front-end-updates-crash-reporting-pdfs-and-more-status-update-6 Work on the Metro style enabled desktop browser has progressed steadily and things are looking really good. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/150 Wed, 15 Aug 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/148/what-is-it-like-to-work-as-a-remote-engineer-at-mozilla Recently a question appeared on Quora: Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/148 Fri, 03 Aug 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/147/user-study-on-mentoring-a-large-first-bug Creating website shortcuts with favicons was a Platform Integration task that has been pending development for almost a decade. Thanks to a new contributor named Parth Mudgal, they’re now live on Nightly builds. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/147 Fri, 27 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/145/firefox-for-windows-8-metro-status-update-5 It’s been a couple months since the last progress update on Firefox for Metro, but things have been progressing at a steady pace. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/145 Thu, 19 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/144/retrospection-my-first-year-at-mozilla About a year and a half ago, Priya Patel reached out to me and offered me a position as a contractor. I eventually accepted and started work on July 6th 2011 under Benjamin Smedberg . I put my heart and soul into it, and a couple months later I was offered a full time position. I started working as... Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/144 Wed, 04 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/143/visual-studio-2012-express-for-desktop-applications Two weeks ago I wrote this tweet that generated over 1500 link clicks alone, as well as several retweets with different untracked links. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/143 Sun, 08 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/142/visual-studio-11-express-no-support-for-building-desktop-applications-nor-metro-style-enabled-desktop-browsers Microsoft announced last week that Visual Studio 11 Express will not have support for building Desktop applications, by extension this also means that it will not have support for building metro style enabled desktop browsers. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/142 Sat, 26 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/141/directx-and-xaml-interop-great-feature-but-not-for-metro-style-enabled-desktop-browsers Using XAML interop made the following things easier: Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/141 Sat, 26 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/140/important-change-to-uac-when-disabled-with-process-integrity-in-windows-8 User Account Control (UAC) is a security enhancement in Windows introduced in Vista. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/140 Sat, 26 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/139/what-will-the-windows-8-metro-ui-look-and-feel-like Wondering what the Windows 8 Metro UI will look and feel like? See the great work of Stephen Horlander and Yuan Wang here: Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/139 Thu, 10 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/138/windows-8-on-arm-users-need-browser-choice-too In case you missed it, Harvey Anderson - Mozilla General Counsel, just published a great blog post about what’s going on with Windows on ARM support. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/138 Thu, 10 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/137/firefox-work-week-windows-8-talk Every year the Firefox team gets together for a week of working together. Last week I attended the 2012 Firefox work week in Toronto. As part of the work week a number of people did a talk on various awesome topics. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/137 Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/136/the-latest-on-firefox-for-windows-8-metro-status-update-4 We’ve made steady progress over the past 3 weeks on Firefox for Windows 8 Metro. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/136 Sun, 22 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/135/a-working-firefox-windows-8-metro-prototype-status-update-3 The Firefox Roadmap lists a 2012 Q2 goal of providing a working Firefox prototype on Metro. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/135 Mon, 02 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/133/frequently-asked-questions-for-silent-updates-in-firefox I will answer some commonly asked questions relating to the series of tasks that make up the silent update project in this post. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/133 Mon, 26 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/132/review-of-the-book-node-for-front-end-developers-by-garann-means ★★★★★ (5 stars out of 5) Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/132 Sun, 25 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/130/firefox-metro-development-heating-up-2nd-status-update This post is a continuation of the Windows 8 status update first started on this blog post. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/130 Sat, 17 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/129/firefox-metro-development-begins-status-update As of Monday of this week, development work began on Firefox for Metro. A bit of background on Windows 8 Metro and Firefox It turns out that on Windows 8 there are 3 types of applications: Classic desktop applications Metro applications Metro style enabled desktop browsers Firefox will fall into... Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/129 Fri, 09 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/127/snappy-optimizations-for-faster-firefox-startup Snappy is a project that aims to improve is improving Firefox responsiveness. As part of this project I’ve been working on Firefox startup optimizations. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/127 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/126/mozilla-platform-development-cheat-sheet Introducing: Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/126 Wed, 05 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/125/mozilla-firefox-and-silent-updates There is a new release of Firefox every 6 weeks instead of every year. Even with this shortened release cycle, these releases still include major enhancements. These faster updates are possible because Mozilla is growing significantly, and the community of Mozillians at large is growing month over... Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/125 Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/124/windows-8-and-thunderbird-first-looks I just wanted to post a quick follow up to my Firefox on Windows 8 post on how Thunderbird works with screenshots. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/124 Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/123/windows-8-and-firefox-first-looks As you probably already know, Windows 8 introduces the new default Tablet interface, and the old normal Desktop interface. It uses the new tablet interface as the startup interface even on Desktops though. For a good rundown on all of the new features, see here. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/123 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/122/review-of-the-book-of-css3-by-peter-gasston ★★★★★ (5 stars out of 5) Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/122 Sun, 07 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/121/web-optimizations-and-canvas-exporting-with-data-urls We see the http a URL scheme, just about every day: Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/121 Sun, 10 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/119/what-you-should-know-about-http-pipelining This article will cover the following topics: An overview of the basics of HTTP What is HTTP pipelining? What problems can appear with HTTP pipelining? Why you should care about HTTP pipelining? Which web servers support HTTP pipelining? Which browsers support HTTP pipelining? (And how to enable... Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/119 Sun, 12 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/118/switching-careers-starting-soon-with-mozilla On July 6th, I will be going through a major change in my life: I’ll be leaving the company I co-founded and worked at for nearly a decade, and will be starting at Mozilla as a contractor. I’m confident that the company I co-founded will continue to prosper under its new parent company,... Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/118 Wed, 08 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/117/stackexchange-average-age-of-users-for-each-tag I thought it would be interesting to calculate the average age of users on each StackExchange site, and even more interesting to see each tag within those sites. I did a caculation using the April 2011 data dump and came up with the following data. I call the statistic the Expected age of a tag... Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/117 Tue, 26 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/116/twitter-linkedin-and-facebook-lists-updated-for-stackexchange-april-dumps I refreshed my lists of social networking accounts (Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook) for StackExchange users. The lists are sorted by reputation and updated for the April 2011 data dump. The data dumps surface every 2 months, so I will update the lists on my site around the same frequency. This... Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/116 Mon, 25 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/115/converting-a-django-site-to-google-app-engine Since my company was acquired , I needed to get my website off of the new company’s servers. My site was built with Django , and I didn’t want to have to pay for hosting. I was at the same time reading a book on Google App Engine (GAE), and realized this would be a great fit. GAE offers... Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/115 Sun, 24 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/114/review-of-programming-google-app-engine ★★★★☆ (4 stars out of 5) Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/114 Sun, 24 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/113/my-company-was-acquired 　　　　 Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/113 Fri, 29 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/112/review-of-97-things-every-programmer-should-know ★★★☆☆ (3 stars out of 5) Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/112 Sun, 24 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/111/five-windows-7-taskbar-features-available-to-developers Believe it or not the Windows 1.0 taskbar looked very similar to the Windows 7 taskbar. But it obviously didn’t have anywhere near same functionality. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/111 Tue, 22 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/110/12-things-web-developers-should-know-about-firebug Below I will list 12 of the most important things I feel web developers should know about Firebug. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/110 Sat, 12 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/109/the-big-picture-of-how-khan-academy-development-works If you haven’t heard of Khan Academy yet, you need to start reading more news. I first heard of Khan Academy when they were announced as a winner of Google’s Project 10^100 and have been telling people and tweeting about them ever since. I didn’t start looking into how their... Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/109 Sun, 06 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/108/twitter-linkedin-and-facebook-stackoverflow-lists-updated The January 2011 data dump was released today. Unfortunately new data dumps will only occur every 2 months officially now. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/108 Sun, 16 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/107/twitter-linkedin-and-facebook-stackoverflow-user-lists-sorted-by-reputation StackOverflow users sorted by reputation are now available for Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook! Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/107 Thu, 06 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/106/73-percent-of-stackexchange-users-from-stackoverflow StackExchange is a group of Q&A sites created by StackOverflow (SO). Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/106 Mon, 03 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/105/twitter-accounts-for-all-stackoverflow-users-by-reputation Wondering who to follow on twitter to keep up to date on technology? Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/105 Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/104/stackoverflow-amongst-nofollow-web-abuse-sites Update December 11, 2011: StackOverflow recently implemented removing nofollow links on high rated posts. It is very strict, but it’s a start. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/104 Fri, 17 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/103/review-of-the-myths-of-innovation-by-scott-berkun ★★★★★ (5 stars out of 5) Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/103 Sat, 11 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/102/review-of-html5-up-and-running-by-mark-pilgrim ★★★★★ (5 stars out of 5) Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/102 Sat, 20 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/101/windows-phone-7-development-overview-in-2-minutes For fun I decided to look into Windows Phone 7 (WP7) Operating System (OS) development. Microsoft is definitely trying to reinvent its Mobile image with WP7 and they are spending over $400 million on marketing to do so. WP7 is a fresh platform for Microsoft and competes against iOS, Android, and... Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/101 Sat, 23 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/100/understanding-windows-at-a-deeper-level-sessions-window-stations-and-desktops If you don’t fully know the answer to any of the questions below, then you should read this post: Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/100 Tue, 19 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/99/stopping-spam-without-captcha I decided to try to stop spam without CAPTCHA. I’m using a service called Akismet. It is free for personal blog use. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/99 Sat, 04 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/98/django-tagging I added tags support for my blog posts via using the Django tagging library. As you can see each blog post now has any number of tags associated with them. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/98 Sat, 17 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/97/django-comment-framework I’ve implemented comments on this site for all blog posts. I’ve been wanting to add comments for a long time, especially in case I have errors in any of my postings. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/97 Fri, 09 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/96/microsoft-mvp-for-visual-c-july-2010-july-2011 July 1st 2010 I was happy to receive an email from Microsoft notifying me that I won one of the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional awards. Specifically I was awarded for Visual C++. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/96 Sat, 03 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/95/the-sad-life-of-svg-up-until-now In 2003 I purchased a book by O’Reilly on Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). It was a great book and I had high hopes for what I was learning, but it remains one of the only things I’ve learnt that I have not had the opportunity to use in a professional setting. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/95 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/94/one-of-the-joys-of-python-generators This post will use Fibonacci numbers as a tool to build up to explaining the usefulness of Python generators. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/94 Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/93/forward-declaring-enums-in-c Forward declaring things in C++ is very useful because it dramatically speeds up compilation time. You can forward declare several things in C++ including: struct, class, function, etc… Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/93 Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/92/pure-virtual-function-call-errors-and-related-behavior Abstract functions, are functions whose implementation is not yet specified. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/92 Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/91/arrays-are-not-the-same-as-pointers A common mistake people make in C++ is thinking that arrays and pointers are the same thing. They’re not. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/91 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/90/introducing-the-rope-data-structure I’ve long known about the rope data structure, but it hasn’t dawned on me until now in what cases you’d actually want to use it. I also didn’t take the time to see how a rope was actually implemented until I looked it up tonight. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/90 Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/89/2-books-i-m-reading I’m currently reading: Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/89 Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/87/how-vnc-fog-creek-copilot-and-other-remote-control-software-works About 7 years ago my company and I created a program called Remote Task Manager. It was exactly like the Windows Task Manager, but it had an extra left bar which showed all the computers you wanted to control. And it had a button for View This Process. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/87 Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/79/the-new-site-is-out Several months ago I decided that this website needed a revamping. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/79 Sat, 22 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/80/pyisapie-with-django-1-1-and-python-2-6 The PyISAPIe help files currently claim you have to use Python 2.5 and uses Django pre 1.0. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/80 Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/78/overloading-logical-operators It is no surprise that the following function returns true Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/78 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/75/braille-and-morse-code Morse code has a 1-1 alphabetical to short/long beep code combo. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/75 Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/76/wedding-anniversary Already Shannon and my 2 year anniversary. We have 2 baby boys so we’re averaging a child per year. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/76 Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/5/slow-compilation-time-in-c-c Compilation in C/C++ is a very big operation due to C/C++’s complex grammar. Source files typically residing in .cpp are always only compiled one time; however, header files typically residing in .h files are compiled once per compiler execution. Each header file needs to be recompiled... Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/5 Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/74/python-s-holy-grail Google has a new project named Unladen Swallow. It’s primary goal is to increase the performance of CPython by five times. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/74 Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/2/the-twins-have-arrived February 5th 2009 my twin boys were born. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/2 Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/3/how-to-change-the-port-for-rdp Turn off the option in my computer properties to enable remote access. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/3 Sat, 09 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/1/big-news Shannon and Brian are having twins, 10 weeks pregnant :) Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/1 Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/4/easy-taxes-for-ontario-canada I used this program to do my taxes (and my wife’s). Once done using the program, it will give you a .tax file which you can use to file your taxes online. You simply upload the .tax file to the government’s online site here. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/4 Sun, 13 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/6/solution-environment-variables-for-visual-studio I found a VS plug-in that allows you to define solution level build environment variables. This is something I’ve been wishing Visual Studio had built in for several years now. One of the reasons that it’s so important is that you can easily define include directories for all of your... Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/6 Sat, 05 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/7/why-is-math-important A quote from Bjarne Stroustrup, creator of the C++ programming language: Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/7 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/8/microsoft-yahoo Everyone states that putting 2 companies together who are not leading will not take over the leader Google. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/8 Sun, 03 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/9/windsor-social-sucks What ever you do, do not submit your email to them. After several phone calls, they assured me that my email would be removed, but it never has. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/9 Thu, 23 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/10/married I got married yesterday to Shannon. Hurray :) Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/10 Mon, 06 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/11/funny-simpsons-quote Homer: Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/11 Sat, 28 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/12/interview-with-steve-and-bill 7 part interview with Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/12 Sun, 03 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/13/parallels-with-mac-book-pro I have multiple Macs and PCs. I like to use the Macs more, but I do most of my development in windows. I tried using parallels at first, but it turned out to be slow for several apps. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/13 Tue, 29 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/14/why-do-file-copy-dialogs-suck-so-much In all operating systems that I’ve seen the file copy dialog sucks. Why is this simple dialog that is used by everyone everyday so hard to come up with a good design? Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/14 Mon, 28 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/15/apple-hardware-hype-advantage Apple not licensing its OS to other hardware vendors, gives Apple a big advantage overall. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/15 Wed, 04 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/16/windows-vista-annoyance Every version of windows allowed each application to stop the computer from entering sleep mode. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/16 Wed, 04 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/17/the-trouble-with-internet-explorer It took Microsoft 5 years to finally release version 7 of IE. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/17 Wed, 24 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/18/writing-good-and-easy-to-understand-emails The most important rule to writing great easy to understand emails, is simply that: Writing is not a linear process. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/18 Thu, 11 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/19/a-story-of-a-17-inch-macbook-pro I wanted a high performance laptop that could run both Mac OSX and Windows. I ordered the 17 inch MacBook Pro 2.33 GHz 2GB RAM Dual Core laptop. This post will discuss my experience with the performance of the laptop, my disassembly of the laptop, my experience with apple phone support, my visit to... Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/19 Mon, 11 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/20/windows-vista-information-and-thoughts BusinessWeek estimates it took 10,000 employees about five years to ship Vista. That’s 50,000 employee years. They estimate about 10 billion in cost to develop the operating system. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/20 Tue, 05 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/21/thoughts-on-apple-and-microsoft I was going to write about when people started to hate Microsoft, but I came across something more interesting… the supposed reason why people hate Microsoft. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/21 Mon, 27 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/22/information-on-the-macintosh Who is Jef Raskin? Jef Raskin started the Macintosh project. He hired Bill Atkinson who put together the first prototype. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/22 Mon, 27 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/23/apple-30-cinema-display I have an Apple 30” cinema display and new Mac Book Pro Laptop. The 30” cinema display has a max resolution (which I use) of: 2560x1600. The screen is huge and is sure to give me a huge productivity boost for my work. The price tag on the 30” apple display is around 2k USD, but... Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/23 Sun, 26 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/24/useful-visual-studio-shortcut-key If you’re a programmer, and you you use visual studio for programming then you should be using this shortcut. Go to Tools Customize and then click on the Keyboard button. Select “Edit.GotoNextLocation”. And assign a global keyboard value of F4. For the GotoPrevLocation set it to... Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/24 Sun, 26 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/25/linked-senses Linked senses rare in some people, but does exist. For example hearing music and seeing colors, or having tastes as you see things. Read here. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/25 Fri, 24 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/26/transparent-fridge-and-washing-machine I want one: Transparent fridge and washing machine Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/26 Fri, 24 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/27/amazing-video-about-a-blind-kid This kid uses echo location to find out where he is. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/27 Mon, 20 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/28/white-and-nerdy Funny weird Al video: White and nerdy Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/28 Wed, 08 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/29/can-you-answer-this-brain-teaser You are in a prison. There are two doors. One leads to freedom and the other leads to certain death. There are also two guards in front of the doors. One always tell the truth while the other one always lies. You can ask only one question to one of the guards before you open one of the doors. What... Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/29 Tue, 07 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/30/stay-hungry-stay-foolish See the 2005 commencement speech at Stanford by Steve Jobs. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/30 Mon, 06 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/31/itv-will-change-the-world If you haven’t heard of iTV, it’s a product that apple will be releasing in the first quarter of 2007. Not many people realize it, but it’s going to change their lives. In the future, say goodbye to DVDs and any other type of disc based media. Say hello to new ways to view video... Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/31 Thu, 02 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/32/steve-jobs Probably the most impressive guy on the planet… Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/32 Thu, 02 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/33/random-wikipedia-page Best homepage you can set is a random Wikipedia page. Simply add the following as your home page: Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/33 Tue, 24 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/34/ie-7-released IE 7 is finally out to the public and out of beta. I wonder if it will effect firefox’s market share, or the rate of increase of firefox’s market share. If i had to bet i would say that it will slightly slow the rate of increate of firefox’s market share. So my guess is that... Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/34 Fri, 20 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/35/18-mistakes-that-kill-startups Read them here Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/35 Wed, 18 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/36/added-picture You can see the picture of myself in the About Me section. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/36 Mon, 09 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/37/google-trumps-yahoo-and-msn Yahoo! and MSN, along with others in the search market, had the chance to buy youTube, but they let Google scoop it up for the small amount of 1.65 billion. Just another example of Google being a great company, they seen that video is becoming a huge part of the Internet and the Internet’s... Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/37 Mon, 09 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/38/nintendo-power-glove-cooler-than-the-wii-remote From this commercial the Nintendo powerglove looks even cooler than the Wii remote. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/38 Thu, 05 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/39/google-code-search Google code search allows programmers to search source code. Works very well. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/39 Thu, 05 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/40/a-map-of-the-internet Pretty cool map of the Internet Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/40 Thu, 05 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/41/10-million-to-any-team-that-can-completely-decode-the-genes-of-100-people-in-10-days The X Prize Foundation is partnering with a wealthy geologist (Canadian woohoo) to offer a $10 million prize to any team that can completely decode the genes of 100 people in 10 days. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/41 Wed, 04 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/42/google-desktop-search-is-annoying If you’ve ever used it before, you know that it wants to run at startup. If you specify in the settings not to run at startup, then one day you decide you want to use it, you start it, and it will automatically add itself to startup again when you try to close it. This is annoying. If you... Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/42 Sat, 30 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/43/prize-money We’re starting to see more and more contests which propel technology beyond their current boundaries. In these contents, an objective is given which has never been accomplished, and a cash prize is given for the first person or team of people to figure out the objective. This is a great... Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/43 Wed, 20 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/44/great-local-band Teach Yourself Piano is a great local (to Windsor Ontario Canada) band. I head them at Chapters book store a few days ago, and now listen to their music daily. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/44 Mon, 18 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/45/visual-studio-c-suggestion When adding a header file include that is not from a directory in your include directories, it should ask you: “Would you like to add [path] to your include directories?” Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/45 Sat, 09 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/47/nice-wallpapers-for-your-computer You can get them here Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/47 Sun, 03 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/48/boot-camp I’ve never seen windows work so fast and nicely before. And of course it’s on apple hardware. Pretty funny Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/48 Sun, 02 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/49/managing-gigabytes-compression-and-ir I purchased this book for learning more about compression and information retriaval. So far it’s very good. The second chapter has a very good coverage of text compression. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/49 Sat, 25 Aug 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/50/google-analytics-now-open-to-all-users Web tracking tool Google analytics is now open [here1. I tried it out and it is far superior to any other website tracking tool I’ve used. It is still a little buggy though, but I’m sure the bugs will be worked out soon. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/50 Thu, 17 Aug 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/51/studies-in-lossless-data-compression I’m going to start studying compression a lot more (yes inspired by the Hutter prize) so that I can hopefully be the first to win the competition. The prize money isn’t really important as I believe it will only work out to about 1-3 thousand euros. I’ve always had an interest in... Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/51 Wed, 16 Aug 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/52/hutter-prize-compress-human-knowledge There is a new contest relating to compression here. All you have to do is beat the previous record and you can win up to 50,000 Euro. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/52 Sun, 13 Aug 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/53/new-service-urlzip ou can now go to http://urlzip.org and “zip” your long URLs into small URLs. Converting long URLs to short URLs is useful when sending long URLs via email. You can also set keywords for your URLs, so that you can always access long URLs just by remembering a short URL. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/53 Sun, 13 Aug 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/54/url-redirecting-temporarily-disabled URL redirecting via this page is temporarily disabled because of this email I received from abuse@myspace.com with a CC to abuse@godaddy.com. So much for trying to provide an innocent good service to users for free with no ads: Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/54 Fri, 11 Aug 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/55/writely-forgot-password-leads-to-new-account I signed up to be notified when I could join writely. I never got an invite. Today I went to lost password and it seems that it bypasses the wait for a new account. It emailed me a pass that I used with my email to access Writely. If anyone needs an invite, please try the above. If it doesn’t... Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/55 Sat, 22 Apr 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/56/google-tech-talk-python-3000 [Creator of Python talks about Python 30001 Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/56 Tue, 25 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/57/xulrunner-cool With XULRunner you can develop your own XUL applications without having Firefox nor Thunderbird installed. This leverages the power of XUL, XPCOM and it’s extensibility. And of course it allows you to make cross platform applications. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/57 Wed, 19 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/58/ubuntu-package-installs After doing some package installs, and seeing how great Ubuntu is with upgrading and installing new software, I’ll never go back to Fedora. Being based off of debian is awesome. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/58 Sun, 16 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/59/installed-ubuntu-linux I installed Ubuntu Linux, and I’m very impressed with it. I previously tried to install Fedora Core 5, Fedora Core 5 had problems with starting up (would hang at udev loading), after a few hours when I got in, my sound and network didn’t work. I installed Ubuntu, the installation for... Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/59 Sun, 16 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/60/wikipedia-contributions I finally signed up for an account at Wikipedia. I’ve made several anonymous changes in the past. You can see a list of my contributions here at my wikipedia user page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Netzen Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/60 Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/61/learning-cocoa-with-objective-c-on-xcode I’ve been starting to learn programming on my apple computer. The cool thing is that all dev tools on Mac are free unlike in windows. The bad part is that it is quite a bit different from programming Win32 :(. I guess maybe i should be using Carbon (Which is more for porting applications from... Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/61 Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/62/udp-tcp-hole-punching I’ve been reading a lot about hole punching. With hole punching, you can get past routers and allow peer to peer communication. The problem is that you can always connect to an outside host, but when an outside host is trying to connect to you, your router doesn’t know who to forward... Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/62 Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/63/got-a-new-apple-computer I got a new apple iMac computer today. My first impressions of it is that it is very cool. It has a remote control, a built in web cam, built in dvd/cd burner, as well as built in wireless. It has a ton of software and everything just works out of the box true to the commercials :) Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/63 Tue, 04 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/64/dynamicdns-addition I updated the DynamicDNS service so that you can pass paths directly to the mapped IP. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/64 Mon, 03 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/65/screen-resolutions I found this interesting, almost all sites that don’t take up the whole screen are fit to an 800x600 screen resolution. I think the last time I myself used this screen resolution was 10 years ago. It seems that only 12% of people today still use this screen resolution. And there’s a... Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/65 Tue, 25 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/66/long-urls-to-small-urls Long URL paths that you want to send to people via email often aren’t clickable because email clients will insert line breaks in the middle of the URL. I created a page that will allow you to turn a long url into a small URL. You can access it here Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/66 Thu, 15 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/67/dynamic-dns-update Dynamic DNS now allows a real http path to point directly to your computer. After creating a dynamic DNS called for example ‘brianbondy’ you can now access the dynamic IP via https://brianbondy.com/brianbondy Since the dynamic host brianbondy is linked to 127.0.0.1, you can access the... Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/67 Wed, 14 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/68/added-submit-url-button-to-links-page Added a new submit URL button to the Links page. It will add the submitted URL to a database for my manual review. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/68 Wed, 14 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/69/dynamic-dns Added a new section available here which allows you to keep track of your non static IP address via a user defined host name. You can use the SOAP Dynamic DNS API to update your IP address periodically, as well as check what the IP address is via the API. You can also simply use the form on the... Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/69 Tue, 13 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/72/what-s-my-ip Added a page to the Other section that allows you to get your external IP address. You can access that page here. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/72 Tue, 30 Aug 2005 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/81/ftp-protocol-overview The official FTP standard is defined in RFC 959 [Postel and Reynolds 1985]. This article is in no way complete nor should it be used as an implementation guide alone. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/81 Mon, 01 Aug 2005 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/82/windows-64bit-amd-and-intel-processor-rundown I just purchased a new 64-Bit AMD computer and installed Windows 64-Bit AMD for the first time. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/82 Sat, 11 Jun 2005 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/84/stl-mini-tutorial-strings-vectors-and-maps Vectors, strings, and maps are all part of the C++ standard template library (STL). You can use them in any C++ program. It doesn’t matter what operating system you’re programming on, if it has C++ support, then it has STL support. Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/84 Wed, 23 Mar 2005 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/83/how-email-works Here’s a quick tutorial on how email works, SMTP, POP3, IMAP, Webmail, … Brian R. Bondy https://www.brianbondy.com/blog/83 Wed, 23 Mar 2005 00:00:00 +0000