Kevin Grad

Hey all,

We left off at the end of my last article being able to grab and print a GET request from a web page. There were a few issues with the way we did things however. Firstly, we were reading in a buffer the size of the maximum possible buffer size, so when we were printing out our request it was followed by a ton of whitespace. In order to fix this I tried to trim the string for whitespace, this did not work.
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Howdy folks,

It has been quite a while since I programmed something productive on my own time. I have been really busy lately at work as we are finishing up our major project from the last 6 months. Hopefully at some point I will write a blog post regarding that project as it is really interesting. I have also been reading up on some languages I have toyed around with (Javascript, Objective-C, C#, Clojure). I also haven’t updated this blog in months. Because of these facts I have decided that it is time to stop reading and start doing, so I have come up with a fun little project for myself.
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I have waited a long time for the new MacBook Pros to be released, and finally that wait is over. The other day Apple released their refreshed MacBook pro line with shiny new core i5 and i5 processors. However, they also released their new terms of service for iPad/iPhone development. If you are a developer and have not heard about this yet, you must be living under a rock (or not care about Apple in the slightest).

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Greetings Earthlings.

It has come to my attention that I have not updated this blog in quite a while. This is an error that I wish to remedy immediately. Since my last post a lot of fun and exciting things have happened and I have learned a ton of new stuff that I will hopefully write about in the near future.
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// WARNING: the ctrl mask randomly subtracts 96 from the ascii
// of any character returned from getEventCharacter(). This is because
// LWJGL is fucked. We had a 30 min convo about this and decided
// to fuck the ctrl key. Alt is better.

Well, It has been a little while since we have posted anything new about Wezzle. Both Cam and myself have been pretty busy with other endeavors and progress on Wezzle slowed quite a bit. But now we are back to working on it and even though I got hit with a bout of the swine flu, we managed to release Wezzle test 7!

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My copy of Programming in Scala finally arrived yesterday, and I have had a chance to read the first chapter. It looks to be a very interesting language. I have had a desire to learn functional programming for a long time, and I have a giant fascination with programming languages in general. Scala seems to be getting a lot of hype right now, and the ability to program both Imperatively and Functionally is too hard to pass up.
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Cam and I were talking about our mutual love for the IM tool Digsby which we both use to track e-mails, social networks and Instant messaging. If you like the popular Mac tool Adium, you will love Digsby. Even if you have never heard of Adium, Digsby is worth checking out.

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I have joined Twitter. I generally hate flavour of the month technology fads and Twitter is no exception. I am already really annoyed with the media coverage of Twitter. It seems like every time I turn on the radio I hear about it. That being said, you can follow me here.

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I have a fascination with programming languages. I have been reading up on many different ones trying to get a feel for them all. I enjoy learning about the different syntaxes and what the advantages are of the different paradigms. I find most of the languages offer really interesting concepts and benefits.
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