This year the robotics team is using The Finch for teaching the new programmers about programming.  The robot is cute and I know I’d want to play with it so I bought one too. While I like Eclipse better than NetBeans, the programming team uses NetBeans.  I decided to try out NetBeans with the Finch so [...]

On September 2, 2011, Google announced it was deprecating the Google Maps API and actively encouraging users to migrate to JavaScript Maps API v3. While abandoning support for the Flash API comes as a bit of a shock, it is not completely unexpected, as Google has not released an update for the API in the [...]

When I work at home on personal computer projects, I have one of two problems: getting distracted from my main task by other computer things or other items that need doing around the house getting so absorbed in my task that I forget to look away from the computer causing me to get a headache [...]