Haacked En Espanol
Luciano Spiguel just posted a partial translation of my post entitled Does Mort Know We’re Talking Smack About Him Behind His Back in Spanish. I’m actually quite honored that someone saw that as being worth a translation.
Read MoreWhat Is Microsoft's Project Q?
Scientific American has a fascinating article this month on Computing
with Quantum Knots. In particular, it focuses on using topological
properties of a two-dimensionaly confined particles called anyons.
Needless to say, the only thing they’ve managed to tie in a knot so far
is my brain. But the research is very promising.
St Paddys Day In Iraq - And A Joke
My former neighbors
who are now in Iraq helping the reconstruction efforts write about
their St. Patrick’s day
celebration
in the
IZ,
aka “The Compound”.
If You Cut A Mort, Does He Not Bleed?
Lazy Coder Scott snickers when he reads blog entries decrying the existence of “Mort”. As he points out, we are all Morts to some degree or another.
Read MoreSee You At Mix06
Ready To Fire My QA Department
I have had it up to here
(imagine my hand on my head) and I am ready to fire the damn QA
department for my blog. Unfortunately I am the QA department, so
things will be a little awkward around here till I find a replacement
willing to take zero pay with no benefits.
Basketball Social Engineering Hoax
Security expert Bruce Schneier writes about a humorous, cruel, yet very clever social engineering hoax inflicted on a USC basketball player in the lead up to an important game.
Read MoreOn10 Shows Potential
So a little while ago I mentioned a new site named On10. I didn’t know what it was at the time, but I was assured by Erik and Adam that it would be cool.
Read MoreLive Comment Preview In Three Easy Steps
Several people have complimented the live comment preview used in my skin. Try leaving a comment and notice the preview mode underneath. It now even supports a few HTML tags. Unfortunately I haven’t updated the comment page to tell you which tags are supported. Doh!
Read MoreCSS Based Printing Tip
This is a follow up tip to my post on Implementing CSS Based Printing.
Read MoreArtificial Deadlines Are The Devils Work
In
my last
post,
I mentioned that even in high pressure situations, I would take my time
and follow certain practices I believe lead to better code, even if it
meant taking longer to complete the code.
Developers Are Not Plug and Play
It never
ceases to amaze me how short sighted management at many companies can be
with software developers. Jeremy Miller mentions a discussion he had at
the Austion Code Camp in which several developers were really
unhappy
with their work situations for very legitimate reasons.
Implementing CSS Based Printing
I don’t know about you, but when I find something wordy but really worth reading on the web, I print it out. Sure, I could try reading it on my tablet, but do you really want to deal with your tablet while reading in the…er… “office” if you know what I mean? *wink wink * *nudge nudge *
Read MoreNew Word Of The Day - Whorosity
Kent Sharkey comments on the necessity of marketing and advertising in general in response to Microsoft’s recent viral marketing efforts.
Read MoreBlogtegrity
Scott over at LazyCoder called me out in my comments for participating in Channel 9’s viral marketing campaign for On10.net, whatever that may be.
Read MoreFunny MySpace Reference In Boondocks Today
The Boondocks cracked me up today.
Read MoreBeyond Channel 9
A Great Week For The Haackayamas
This past week was a particularly good week and weekend for me and my wife. First of all, I was happy to announce the release of Subtext with only a few minor hitches which is a great feeling.
Read MoreSubtext Issue: Missing Emoticons File
UPDATE: Ok, this is totally my fault. I took a perfectly good NAnt script another developer wrote and tried to add a few things in there and made a dumb error. I should have a unit test for our NAnt script. ;) I’ll write up a post later describing the issue.
Read MoreSoftware Project Management Lessons From Open Source
Via Slashdot, I recently read an article entitled What Corporate Projects Should Learn From Open Source by Andrew Stellman and Jennifer Greene.
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