Published February 15th, 2008
in Personal and Projects.
For the last few months I've been busy working on a Windows port of Scorecard, a golf statistics application which previously was Mac only. I am happy to say that the Windows version is finally available for download and purchase!
This is what Alan Olson, one of the staff members of The Sand Trap has to say about Scorecard:
If you are serious about improving your golf game but not sure which areas need the most work, Scorecard is an excellent and easy to use application to help you identify your problem areas. I've created my own tracking spreadsheets and used several online services in the past but Scorecard blows all of those away by just ease of use and the data generated really shows you quickly what you need to work on. For us Windows folks, this is great day!
If you love to analyze your golf game and want to improve you should seriously take a look at Scorecard.
Published November 10th, 2006
in Artificial Intelligence, Personal and Projects.
Yesterday, I was back in Copenhagen and took the final exam for my thesis and can now officially say that I am a Master of Science in Information Technology, Software Development.
Our supervisor and the censor was impressed by the developed tool/library, stating that it showed good knowledge about the theoretic aspects of configuration problems, and that we had a very good objective oriented approach on our product. We were set back a bit though by the report which was a bit vague on the explanations at times. Overall, we are satisfied with the result and thrilled by finally being done with it 
Our thesis project, CLab#, will be utilized at the IT University of Copenhagen for teaching about constraint programming and configuration problem handling, and our supervisor will be the maintainer of the tool from now on. The tool will be available online soon.
Published September 27th, 2006
in Apple and Personal.
I have updated the Norwegian translation of the latest beta version of Chax now, and sent it to Kent for submission in the final version of 1.4.6.
If anyone would like to have it before 1.4.6, just drop me a message and I'll send it to you.
Published August 25th, 2006
in Apple and Personal.
Applescript is a scripting language I haven't played much with since I got my Powerbook. I actually haven't found any use of it...until now
I have created a small Applescript which uses the shell "utility" fortune to display some wisdom in the everyday work. From the man page for fortune: «fortune - print a random, hopefully interesting, adage». The following script lets the user loop through random quotes and smart little notes and gives the option to send it to the clipboard:
CODE:
repeat
set f_text to (do shell script "/usr/local/bin/fortune -s -n 80
/usr/local/share/fortunes/computers")
display dialog ¬
f_text with icon 1 ¬
with title ¬
"Send Fortune to Clipboard?" buttons {"Cancel", "Next", "OK"} ¬
default button "Next"
if button returned of result is "Cancel" then
display dialog "Cancel"
exit repeat
else if button returned of result is "Next" then
else
set the clipboard to f_text
exit repeat
end if
end repeat
(set f_text to (do shell script "/usr/local/bin/fortune -s -n 80 /usr/local/share/fortunes/computers") should be one the same line)
As you can see, I have specified some options for the fortune command. The following bit specifies that the length of the fortunes should not be more than 80 characters:
-s can be replaced for -l to specify a minimum length instead. The path which I set at the end is the path to computer related cookies.
It is also possible to use this Applescript to set new status/mood messages in iChat/Skype (and possibly other IM applications too, but I have only tested on these). To do this, replace the line which says "set the clipboard to f_text" to:
CODE:
tell application "iChat"
set the status message to f_text
end tell
tell application "Skype"
send command "SET PROFILE MOOD_TEXT" & f_text
end tell
Published August 14th, 2006
in Personal.
I now received spam on my phone too! I was sitting here working on my thesis when I heard the phone rang in the living room. It immidiately stopped, and there was a WAP Push message in my inbox. Obviously, the ringing was only for getting attention. The message said:
3 FREE Ringtones!
and the url for the message is http://no.widelive.com/index.wml?cp=17
Obviously, if I go to the address stated I will be downloading something (I do not trust it to be ringtones, and I'm not that interested in it either). Is this the new way of spamming people? I have never heard of this kind of spam before.
Btw: The number the call came from is: +911815011829
