In 2007, I wrote an article about ant dependency graphing in the JavaRanch Journal.  I had cause to try it again to visualize the FIRST robotics complex build scripts.  This time, I’m on Mac.  At the moment, the MacOS version of Graphviz is in beta.  This isn’t critical so giving it a try. It was [...]

WPILibJ is a library used for FIRST robotics code when programming in Java.  Helping the Stuypulse team gave me the opportunity to look at some of the code.  In honor of ship date this year, I decided to blog some thoughts on the library.  You can see the JavaDoc to follow along. Good design point [...]

In early January, I blogged about Getting my iPad ready for FIRST robotics season.  It’s now enough later to revisit that and see how things worked out. Overall, things have gone better than expected.  For the most part, the internet has been available making searching the internet easy. Gmail Now that I’m relying on the [...]