A Quote for Today
" I challenge Mr. Henn to defend the federal budget as being a shining example of long-term planning for the greater good." – Cafe Hayek
November 2007
Virginia Tech Footballs
It’s been a good week to be Viginia Tech football fan, either pointy or round ball kind. While the gridirion team gets their re-match with BC, the Hokies soccer team is having a historic year. Not only have the men gone undefeated at home, but last night they advanced in the NCAA tournament. Tech (12-3-5)
Work with the 20 percent.
Amazingly insightful easy, as usual, on coding horror about The Two Types of Programmers. The 20% folks are what many would call "alpha" programmers — the leaders, trailblazers, trendsetters, the kind of folks that places like Google and Fog Creek software are obsessed with hiring. These folks were the first ones to install Linux at
Is this why I don’t have a fave web desginer?
From reading "Design doing": Speaking personally, all of my favourite web designers have one thing in common: they know how to write HTML and CSS I’m still surprised by how little HTML + CSS many "web" designers actually know.
A comprehensive look at PHP5 DateTime
Don’t expect to find it here, but Laughine Meme posted the most comprehensive one I could find. You would think that with the introduction in 5.2 of the DateTime and DateTimeZone objects, that date math would be a lot easier in PHP. Unfortunately, the implementation isn’t as advanced as I’d expected, maybe a case of
About the Creation Museum
You may not be aware of it, but someone has spent twenty-some million dollars to build a Creation Museum. I hope you take the time to read and enjoy John Scalzi’s report about his trip to this shrine to creationsim as much as I did – especially the part about vegeterian dinosaurs. It’s one thing
US Citizen Deported to Mexico
It’s a scary thought, and something only a few years ago I thought I’d only read in the Onion, but I just read an article about a US Citizen, born in California, that had been wrongly deported to Mexico. Think it can’t happen to you? Short of always carrying your Passport, or Citizenship Certficate, if
Deals with the devil
After two summers during high school where I had the pleasure of working with Visual Basic and Access, you couldn’t pay me enough to program with an MS designed language again. And, even though I have a basic understanding of Java, very few interesting web sites use Java as their foundation. But apparently, the marketplace
Heard at work today
Frustrated co-worker: If they know so much about web site standards, how come they can’t freakin make an href tag without calling me?