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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// 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.

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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With the abundance of computing power in processors today it is easy to fall into the trap of implementation without thought of performance. It is something I think all programmers do, myself especially.

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