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 […]
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.
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
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
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
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
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?
Why do newbies like to tightly couple systems to the point that a simple change is very likely to result in everything breaking? Is it just a lack of experience, ie not having a big system fail on you? Its a shame if failure is the only thing you learn from. The other part of
For a while now, digital cameras have been able to record movies along with just taking photographs. Camera vendors use different video codecs to compress and save the video you take. Common codecs include one of Apple’s quicktime codecs (usually saved as a .mov file) and a variety of codecs with the .avi extension. AVI
On our way to dinner Friday, my Dad and I were wondering what is the exact difference between a router and a switch. Sounds like something basic most anybody with a home network should know, but at best all we could do was guess/BS our way through the answer. Wikipedia to the rescue. Router A
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