Lance Wicks BSc (Hons) Kiwi, Judoka, Geek, Husband Daddy! Working of Software Development
I m sitting in a darkened sports arena in Kazakhstan as I write this. For the first time in 7 years I am again on the International Judo Federation world tour; working in the IT team. Life goes by fast, and blogs gather dust as this one has. So what have [ ]
Today I updated my Contact page, in effect retiring Twitter, which is a platform that I no longer use, the rapid deterioration of that platform has been remarkable. Mastodon has now become far more valuable to me, and email returning to be the main social networking tool in my bag. [ ]
Recently I started building a new tool. It sends UDP data packets that the International Judo Federation (IJF) TV graphics software(s) listen for and present on screen. Normally these packets are sent by the four scoreboard systems at the event. The reason for the tool, is that to test the [ ]
In an effort to rebuild the muscles of regular blogging, I want to write something here; even if it is only a small something. So here is a short summary fo what has been happening. In $dayjob, a big project has some to a key point and gone pretty well. [ ]
Recently, I have been trying to refresh some of my projects that have gathered dust of late. So since I wrote last I have been spending my free time writing and coding.. and rowing. I took to rowing as running has this bad habit of me getting injured and it s [ ]
On scuttlebutt quite a few people do this development diary idea, so I thought I would post one up on here. This week, I have been pretty busy catching up on some side projects and trying to get some structure in place for some of the ones that are the [ ]
Wow it s so crazy that it s been a while since 2020 when I last updated this site. So much has happened since then, and mostly it has gone by and life rolls on. I m currently working developing Perl again full-tme which is a nice change from being heavily involved in [ ]
Lately I have been working on a tool we use on the IJF World Tour to present real-time graphics on the live stream fo events; and it made me want to write something about how important legacy software is and how in fact we can argue that legacy software is [ ]
This week, I tried to do week 75 and it just did not click. 🙁 That said, I did do some Perl coding for someone looking at doing some research into Judo. They reached out to me as a result of my http://rwjl.net site I think. On that page I [ ]
Hello once again; here is another post about the Perl Weekly Challenge. This time I have done both challenges in Perl 5. I livecoded both: Challenge-74, Task 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uM0TTQZaZ2Q Challenge-74, Task 2: Part 1: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/716304993 Part 2: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/716329311 So what did Task 1 look like: So pretty simple module; I [ ]