expletive inserted Does cursing make you feel better?

technology

Oh Well

In technology on 1 July 2008 with no comments

Adobe makes flash searchable. 1/2 ain’t bad.

Python String Interpolation

In programming, python on 30 June 2008 with 3 comments

AKA string formatting, AKA Putting values of variables into strings, AKA that thing you do with the funny symbols to get the values of variables inside strings. At the most basic level, most programmers find that at some point they need to insert the values of a whole bunch of variables into a string. The [...]

How I Roll

In technology on 12 June 2008 with no comments

At Home: Macbook Pro External 24″ Monitor Slim Mac Keyboard Crappy Dell USB Mouse Gmail Synergy TextMate iTerm MySQL SQLite Python Ruby Firefox Firebug QuickSilver SVN Adium Quinn CyberDuck Skype At Work: Dell OptiCrap with an shitton of RAM XP Pro SP2 Dual 19″ Widescreens Visual Studio 2008, 2005 (c#) Python (one off scripts/text parsing [...]

Tech Job Wisdom

In technology on 11 June 2008 with no comments

If you blow a tech interview because you are greatly under qualified and honestly don’t know the things required for the job, but they still give you an offer anyway, DON’T TAKE THAT JOB. It’s a trap. It most likely means the people hiring you are less competent than yourself and you’re going to be [...]

Up Yours, Reddit

In annoyance, horseshit, idiocy, technology, uncategorized on 6 June 2008 with no comments

I might stop by from time to time to see what’s going on, but I’m out. This is just total bullshit.

Innovation

In goodstuff, microsoft, technology on 27 May 2008 with no comments

It’s pretty funny that we actually have Microsoft to thank for the original XHR. Makes you wonder what else is hiding in their R&D labs.

JavaScript, the Good Parts

In goodstuff, javascript, programming, technology on 15 May 2008 with no comments

This guy is so great. First JSON message failed because of JavaScript limitation on not allowing reserved keywords as name part of object literals.

Which Came First, the Download or the Downloader?

In horseshit, idiocy, technology on 2 April 2008 with no comments

This Greenhouse business is ridiculous. Most downloader-type applications are. Do I really have to: Download the Greenhouse installer (2.6M)  Open the file only to have it immediately start downloading what I can only assume is the core of some bit-torrent-esque windows client (Indeterminate size) Start the application to go download the FREE content I’m looking [...]

VB6? April Fools!? Nope.

In consultants, horseshit, idiocy, microsoft, technology on 2 April 2008 with no comments

My first programming internship used VB6 (1998), and it was great at the time. My first real job was mainly Classic ASP (2001), and I didn’t have a problem with that either. We just got back a proposal from a consulting company to revamp one of our aging CD-ROM based products and my jaw hit [...]

Andreessen is guilty of inflicting goatse on the world

In humor, technology on 21 March 2008 with 1 comment

“Hey guys, wouldn’t it be cool if people could put pictures of anything they wanted on the internet?” Marc Andreessen is one of my heroes, but I realized today that he’s indirectly responsible for inflicting goatse and tubgirl on the world. I guess someone would have proposed this sooner or later.