Marcus recently said some things about languages that I agree with whole heartedly: Pick your weapon and go to town! It’s the tools that make languages useful. Rails is always an example because it’s Ruby’s killer app. The tools don’t make the language, but they certainly draw moths to the flame. So here’s to...

Marcus recently said some things about languages that I agree with whole heartedly: Pick your weapon and go to town! It’s the tools that make languages useful. Rails is always an example because it’s Ruby’s killer app. The tools don’t make the language, but they certainly draw moths to the flame. So here’s to...

Marcus recently said some things about languages that I agree with whole heartedly: Pick your weapon and go to town! It’s the tools that make languages useful. Rails is always an example because it’s Ruby’s killer app. The tools don’t make the language, but they certainly draw moths to the flame. So here’s to...

I made some noise a few weeks back about switching to my AlBook full time. This did not come to pass. The nifty examples of a Powerbook mounted on a stand beside a big monitor are not reasonable. The connectors being on the side of the computer prevent any attempts to get [...]

I made some noise a few weeks back about switching to my AlBook full time. This did not come to pass. The nifty examples of a Powerbook mounted on a stand beside a big monitor are not reasonable. The connectors being on the side of the computer prevent any attempts to get [...]

This is really just for me, because I do this the ‘long’ way all the time.   my %color = map { $_, 1 } @color; Jacked from Effective Perl.

This is really just for me, because I do this the ‘long’ way all the time.   my %color = map { $_, 1 } @color; Jacked from Effective Perl.

You know you are a dork when you recognize the SHA-1 hash of your favorite password.

You know you are a dork when you recognize the SHA-1 hash of your favorite password.

I ended hanging out at work late enough that it was better to wait for traffic than to try and fight my way home. I’ve not got any one thing to talk about so I’ll just brain dump all the little mind-boogers that I can’t get to congeal into a single post. I mentioned in [...]

I ended hanging out at work late enough that it was better to wait for traffic than to try and fight my way home. I’ve not got any one thing to talk about so I’ll just brain dump all the little mind-boogers that I can’t get to congeal into a single post. I mentioned in [...]

A requirement for our ‘future’ platform was to play nicely with users who, for whatever reason, don’t allow cookies. The idea we settled on was to attempt to set a cookie, but use a session id in the URI if they had no cookie. This means that the first time a user visits [...]

A requirement for our ‘future’ platform was to play nicely with users who, for whatever reason, don’t allow cookies. The idea we settled on was to attempt to set a cookie, but use a session id in the URI if they had no cookie. This means that the first time a user visits [...]

On the eve of The Steve’s keynote at MacWorld, Apple is getting a lot of buzz around the Intertron. Today at the office I was discussing an application with Nathan and I advised him to simply copy Foo.app to his other machine. I commented that such action should work flawlessly, as that is [...]

On the eve of The Steve’s keynote at MacWorld, Apple is getting a lot of buzz around the Intertron. Today at the office I was discussing an application with Nathan and I advised him to simply copy Foo.app to his other machine. I commented that such action should work flawlessly, as that is [...]