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How DeepSeek’s Efficient Model Is Shaking Up the AI Landscape

Brian Kennedy — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 21:14:25 +0000

Exciting news this week in the fast-moving world of artificial intelligence! The “DeepSeek R1” model, developed by a small Chinese company, DeepSeek, has managed to achieve what was once thought impossible—competing with OpenAI’s best models using just a fraction of the computational power and cost. This breakthrough not only threatens the dominance of AI giants ... Read more

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Setting Up Django in a VS Code Dev Container: A Step-by-Step Guide

Brian Kennedy — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 23:35:34 +0000

Running Django in a VS Code dev container is a great way to standardize your development environment while leveraging the power of Docker. With a dev container, you can eliminate “it works on my machine” problems and create a portable development setup. In this tutorial, I’ll walk you through the process of setting up Django ... Read more

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Python Essentials: What Programmers Coming From Other Languages Need to Know

Brian Kennedy — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 18:54:05 +0000

Welcome to the world of Python! If you’re transitioning from another programming language or if you’ve been dabbling in various languages and decided to give Python a deeper look, there are some essential quirks and features you should be aware of. Python, often lauded for its readability and elegance, does have its unique characteristics. In ... Read more

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WordPress: Movable Type and TypePad Import Plugin + Image Downloader

Brian Kennedy — Thu, 16 May 2013 18:22:03 +0000

A coworker of mine has been keeping a blog with Typepad for several years now. As of recently he decided he wanted to switch to using WordPress on one of our servers. This is usually easy; you export your blog from the original site and import it using the appropriate plugin. WordPress provides great plugins ... Read more

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HTML5 Canvas 2D Game Experimentation: Basic sprite movement and map management

Brian Kennedy — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 22:39:46 +0000

Here’s an HTML5 experiment in progress… HTML5’s canvas element is pretty powerful and easy to use. Rendering images, shapes, and text typically does not require a lot of code. So I decided it would be fun to build a simple javascript gaming engine to see what I could do with the canvas element in a ... Read more

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BK Countdown: A robust, fully customizable javascript Countdown class for jQuery

Brian Kennedy — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 19:30:20 +0000

I was looking for one of those javascript date counters we’ve all seen a million times and came across a bunch. Each had its own unique twist but not too many were flexible. I realized it would be way more fun to just write my own. In doing so, I wound up with a wonderful ... Read more

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ArcGIS JavaScript API: Understanding the Query Task

brian — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 02:05:09 +0000

The Query Task is probably the single most important class in the ArcGIS Server Javascript API. Understanding how to access data from the server and how to manipulate it is the cornerstone to developing any GIS application. There are a few examples within ESRI’s sample page, however I wanted to provide two examples outlining how ... Read more

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Understanding Alternative syntax for control structures in PHP

Brian Kennedy — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 19:09:38 +0000

Sometimes you wind up working on a page that switches back and forth between php and html. It can be tricky keeping track of code or making the mistake of over using the echo function. Luckily php supports an alternative syntax for control structures allowing you to jump in and out of php and html. ... Read more

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Stamen’s new basemaps are beautiful

Brian Kennedy — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 14:17:40 +0000

Stamen recently released a set of free open source web mapping services that are both fast and beautiful. Watercolor (my favorite) is a great map service for anyone looking to add some artistic flare to their maps. The basemap incorporates hand-painted brush textures and high-level cartographic algorithms to create a map that honestly looks like ... Read more

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