December 27, 2008 – 20:30
Free ebooks rock don’t they? Well, in a sheer strike of luck I came across this particular one which I’ve been reading bits and pieces of during the last few months called How to be a programmer“. The thing that’s interesting about this programmers guide is that it focuses on the everyday, non-programming aspect of the job. [...]
When you’re stuck with oldskool Windows batch scripting, you can get the feeling your being transported back in time to the DOS age where New Wave was popular and Bill Gates was looking like a geek. Well, yeah, he still looks like a geek, but at least New Wave is dead, thought the haircuts where [...]
“painted master” by Darwin Bell, cc-licensed Security is something you should know a few things about as an application programmer. In fact, if there is one thing you should know is that you don’t know jack about security, or at least not much. When it comes to down to figuring out your own security scheme [...]
Things that suck: having to change your permalinks. They’re called permalinks for a reason, but if for some unknown reason you keep getting CGI errors on the old links you can’t just keep that setting can you? So now I’m using the old and ugly WP default permalink structure again, linking to a post using [...]
You might or might not have heard about Akismet before, but in case you haven’t let me tell you that that little WordPress plugin is simply a godsend. Even a small blog like mine isn’t small enough to stay out of the cross hair of the evil spammers on the internet. I just noticed once [...]
November 18, 2006 – 23:01
One thing I always find interesting as a programmer is to take a peek at other peoples source code. Sometimes this happens out of curiousity, to see how they solved a particular problem, or if their implementation kicks more ass than the one I thought of. Or simply to learn something new and excitingly different. [...]
February 27, 2006 – 22:54
I came across HTA (HTML Applications) a while ago and I have to say it’s kinda neat. In a way it’s not a big deal, but I didn’t know you could do this, and it really empowers you to write neat little apps fast by using JScript or VBScript and HTML, which is basic knowledge [...]
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