Connecting ideas to code
So you’re discovered that the company you work for has a culture of failure, and there’s no light at the end of the tunnel. You’ve finally realized that you’re better than that, that you deserve a good place to work. You’re ready to move on, to roll the dice at that monster of a gig, [...]
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Have you ever given thought to the culture in your workplace? Does it engender success or are you set up to fail? As a developer, do you think that success is properly recognized in your workplace?
We’ve all worked at a place where the deadlines are tight, the feature set large, and pressure is everywhere. In [...]
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I’ve been using Emacs as my editor of choice for many years now, long before it was officially released for DOS and Windows systems. I started with the OEmacs port after getting tired of an old editor called pmate. PMate was a TECO derivative that had four buffers but only one was backed by [...]
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I had to rebuild my old Transport ZX (stargazer1) laptop a couple of months ago when I had to replace the failed hard drive. I put XP on it instead of Win2K and though it’s a little slower that it was, all is fine. I’ve kept the install light — no MS Office, no Outlook, [...]
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Excellent paper on HTTP Sessions
Just finished reading a whitepaper on Web Based Session Management, worth a read. It lists the advantages and disadvantages of the three main forms of session management and common attacks.
Go forth and read! (0)
Stretchy Designs
If you’re afraid of using em-based layouts, or just haven’t got around to using them in your designs, head on over to Jon Tan’s blog and read his great article, The Incredible Em & Elastic Layouts with CSS . He does a great job of demonstrating how easy it is to create an elastic layout in terms even engineers can understand. (1)
Is Google Evil? Here's Proof!
Many people wonder if Google is evil, despite their motto. But I have discovered proof that Google is Evil. See for yourself!
Why software projects die
Great post over at sourcemaking.com today, 40 Reasons Why Software Projects Die. One recent job I had suffered from many of these AntiPatterns, specifically
What's a Snow Flake?
There are times when I want to make a quick point without having to write an essay on the topic. Apparently there’s a whole meme of a blog within a blog, aka a sideblog or “asides”. I found a nice plugin that lets me do the same thing. I needed a name for this feature and since it’s just a little piece of Snowmoon Software, that “Snow Flake” would be a good name. Like it? Hate it? Leave a comment! (0)
