Archive 116 posts
Farid Zakaria's Old Blog
These are the posts from my original WordPress blog. They are kept here as an archive; the formatting did not always survive the migration, and the opinions are those of a much younger engineer.
2018 2 posts
2016 4 posts
2015 3 posts
2014 10 posts
- Nov 14 Scalatron Build.sbt file to the rescue
- Oct 27 Spray - Building a website
- Oct 13 Analyzing CloudTrail Logs Using Hive/Hadoop
- Sep 11 SQS , Apache Camel & Akka
- Aug 13 Try #2: Fixing download name
- Jul 11 Unit test in Play! Framework with Slick
- Jul 09 Scala Closure Example
- Jun 09 Fix for latest Extension Hypemachine bug
- May 05 Play! Framework with Akka actors on Heroku
- Apr 16 How to install Elasticsearch on EC2 with Amazon Linux
2013 5 posts
2012 23 posts
- Dec 29 Small Update + More to Come!
- Dec 04 Someone must be using the site!
- Nov 20 Downloading Songs from Soundcloud
- Nov 06 New Domain Name
- Nov 06 Getting things to play nice
- Oct 30 Python Download Script Updated
- Oct 09 [BETA] Download HypeMachine Songs Website
- Oct 05 Hello Linode and New Subdomain
- Oct 02 Hypem API Changes
- Oct 02 New Hypem Download Site
- Sep 26 Return by Reference to a Pointer, Huh?
- Sep 07 HypeMachine Extension Fixed
- Aug 17 Django and Learning to Crap
- Jun 28 Catching Up: Hypescript fixed. More to come.
- Jun 26 Eclipse + Perforce + BeyondCompare
- May 16 Jamaican Me Jerky
- May 15 Mockup: Free Key Analysis for DJs
- May 11 Minecraft Creeper
- Apr 23 Colour spaces and NV12 to RGB
- Apr 16 Update: Fixed HypeScript and HypeMachine Extension
- Apr 16 HypeMachine Script / Java / Extension Not Working
- Jan 13 Chrome Extension: Getting Those Ajax Queries
- Jan 04 Beatprice in Alpha
2011 36 posts
- Nov 22 Windows 8 Metro + HypeMachine Cool But Dead
- Nov 16 My C++ Class Idiom Gotcha
- Oct 13 Python is not ==
- Sep 29 Unity 3: Trying to get 2D for Free
- Sep 15 Unity 3: Loving it.
- Sep 09 First Thoughts on XNA 4.0 Game Architecture
- Sep 07 Beatprice Chrome Extension Edition
- Aug 26 Game Engine: Finally Getting Around To it
- Aug 23 Why wouldn't you use brackets?
- Aug 18 HypeMachine Chrome Extension HotFix
- Aug 15 Facebook Friend Wall Spammer
- Aug 15 Moving Past Small Software Projects
- Aug 04 Sublime 2 - Appropriate Namesake
- Aug 04 Small Stab at C++ Templates
- Jul 21 Vindication : Huffman Coding
- Jul 19 Removed HypeMachine Chrome Extension
- Jun 28 Chrome Download Extension API
- Jun 24 Chrome's Missing De-Obfuscate Option
- Jun 21 Double request for Songs + New Layout
- Jun 16 My next thing: Django + [Insert Here]
- May 26 Little Jab :)
- May 26 Back & Forth
- May 25 Chrome HypeMachine Extension; Finally got around to it.
- May 19 Java HypeMachine Batch Downloader
- May 12 The Fastest $2.99 I've Ever Spent
- Apr 22 My last stab at it.
- Apr 08 Not Naming Any Names
- Apr 06 iHypeMachine
- Apr 05 HypeMachine on the iPhone: Round 2
- Apr 03 Proof of Concept: iPhone HypeMachine Application
- Mar 30 HypeMachine Cocoa Win
- Mar 23 Thanks and Up Next
- Mar 23 HypeMachine Cocoa Woes
- Feb 23 HypeMachine Batch Downloader 2.0
- Feb 18 Diary of promoting
- Feb 07 Hello GitHub
2010 18 posts
- Dec 29 HypeMachine Extension on Chrome Web Store
- Dec 28 I do understand Git I just don't want the awesomeness
- Dec 25 Joy of Anonymous Gift Giving
- Dec 23 HypeMachine Chrome Extension and Hacking the Isolated world
- Dec 22 Investigation into Compile time and Linking time optimizations
- Dec 21 Journey Into Music, Python and Some Disorienting Web
- Dec 21 What I want to write about
- Nov 30 Difficulty with Code Swarm on Perforce
- Jul 30 We've truly been stagnant...
- Jul 30 Thoughts on communication and Ray Tracing
- Jun 22 Stupid SOP and GWT Proxy Service
- Apr 20 Stop the hate on comments.
- Mar 19 Game Industry: Box Art
- Feb 11 Trying to become Master++
- Jan 25 I want built in Design Patters
- Jan 12 What type of company are you in?
- Jan 08 C++ for real now!
- Jan 02 Inspiration for the masses
2009 15 posts
- Dec 30 Take care of my thoughts, won't you?
- Oct 09 uC++ and Shooting Yourself in the foot
- Sep 16 Return to Campus
- Aug 31 Elegance and Gripes
- Aug 26 Simulateous Learning
- Aug 18 A little more IronPython
- Aug 13 IronPython, C# 4.0 & Me
- Aug 10 I have failed.
- Aug 06 What did you do with my resources?
- Jul 31 Fireballs and ToolTips
- Jul 24 Trying to get feedback faster than you can say...
- Jul 23 Image Manipulation Tool Me Some More
- Jul 22 Threads and Images
- Jul 15 Splash Screens
- Jul 11 Locked in for life?