http://jeffmatherphotography.com/dispatches The 9 to 5 Life of an International Playboy Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:00:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Comrade programmers! About five years ago I wrote a little program to help me find numeric patterns in arrays. Basically I needed to find byte patterns like 0xFFFE 0xE000 in the data from DICOM files. Something like MATLAB's strfind function, except more general than looking for substrings in strings. So ... http://jeffmatherphotography.com/dispatches/2008/09/quickly-finding-numeric-patterns-in-matlab/ Here's a little something for the MATLAB lovers out there who also program in C++. The code sample at the end of this post shows how to add a C++ iterator to an mxArray, which is the basic datatype for MATLAB arrays. This makes it harder to walk ... http://jeffmatherphotography.com/dispatches/2008/08/using-c-iterators-on-matlab-mxarrays/ And now a word from your sponsors. ... http://jeffmatherphotography.com/dispatches/2008/08/what-i-did-on-my-summer-vacation-part-3/ "The other day, I saw a bear. A great big bear, a way out there. . ." Driving back to East Glacier one day, we decided to count the different kinds of (larger) animals we saw on our trip: mule deer, prairie dogs, black bears, mountain goats, brook trout, magpies, ravens, goldfinch, ... http://jeffmatherphotography.com/dispatches/2008/08/what-i-did-on-my-summer-vacation-part-2/ "Jeff, we demand pictures! You've been back for two weeks. How long can it take?" Alright. Alright. But you're only going to get a rough timeline. Downtown Denver ... http://jeffmatherphotography.com/dispatches/2008/08/what-i-did-on-my-summer-vacation-part-1/ Blackfeet Nation, Montana It's taking me longer than I had hoped, but you can expect to see photographs and details about our Western swing soon. . . . http://jeffmatherphotography.com/dispatches/2008/08/coming-soon-what-i-did-on-my-summer-vacation/ Downtown Casper, Wyoming I picked up twenty sheets of developed 4x5" film from the lab today. Although I made hundreds of photographs with my digital camera, these were certainly the most enjoyable to produce and also the ones that filled me with the most trepidation. I'm pleased to report ... http://jeffmatherphotography.com/dispatches/2008/07/my-spring-of-100-mistakes-part-4/ I love farm toys. My grandfather used to build the real tractors in Waterloo for John Deere, and he would give us 1/16 scale toys when we were kids. After he retired, he decided to rebuild an old Oliver, just to keep busy. While we were in Billings, we ... http://jeffmatherphotography.com/dispatches/2008/07/tractors/ Apparently, the West does not have a good system of Internet tubes. And the ones I was able to tap into I mainly used for homework. We will return you to regularly scheduled programming soon. . . . http://jeffmatherphotography.com/dispatches/2008/07/back-on-the-air-soon/ Today we went to the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming. It's a lot of fun, with a little something for everyone. Click for larger Click for larger Click for larger Click for larger Click for larger Click for larger Click for larger Click for larger http://jeffmatherphotography.com/dispatches/2008/07/west-of-the-imagination/