Month: January 2009

  • Everybody Take a Step Back and Breathe

    Want to know what happened on the internet today? Slashdot | Google Search Flagging Everything As Potentially Harmful Google Flags Whole Internet As Malware Google Mistakenly Labels The Internet as Malware Google Red-Faced…And Me, Too Updated – Google: Every site on the Web is harmful Oh and that isn’t even half of the articles that […]

  • The Complex Made Simple

    For work, I had a piece of code that needed to calculate if a certain date fell in between two other days. So I started out writing out this big long function to calculate if a date fell first within the same year as either of the two dates, and if so within the two […]

  • links for 2009-01-26

    Ajaxian » What is coming up with IE8 and 9? CSS2.1 fully supported, no supper for CSS border-radius, in IE8. Future versions will have improved JS support. (tags: javascript ie ie8 ie9 css css3 css2 technology) Op-Ed Columnist – Bad Faith Economics – NYTimes.com Krugman's well reasoned response to Republicans attacking Obama's stimulus plan. (tags: […]

  • links for 2009-01-25

    Don't hire a programmer if they don't code for fun Totally agree. (tags: programming business career job hiring management startup interview hackers blog) AMC – Blogs – SciFi Scanner – John Scalzi Tries 007 and Repo Man in the SciFi Court Exactly how I feel about sci-fi, the science-fiction is the main driver of the […]

  • links for 2009-01-23

    Self-promotion at work: 8 tips for shy people Everybody could use more exposure. (tags: career job work) BBC NEWS | Special Reports | Green Room | Climate shift 'killing US trees' "Old growth trees in western parts of the US are probably being killed as a result of regional changes to the climate, a study […]

  • Transitions

    I’m a little late in writing this, but earlier this week coinciding with the transition in our government, I made a personal transition. I accepted a position with Simple Web Works, a Web Design and Development firm located here in Lubbock. I will be working with them as a part-time Web Developer (PHP, SQL, JavaScript, […]

  • links for 2009-01-22

    Worst Field Trip Idea Ever | Friendly Atheist by Hemant Mehta WTF???? School trip to attend a "Just for Jesus" rally, ok, can I bring my "I worship Satan" or even better "Jesus and I smoked pot" shirt? (That was sarcasm people, I do not own either shirt.) (tags: atheism religion education) Pharyngula: The banana […]

  • links for 2009-01-21

    Using PHP To Access Files – The Basics | Web Builder Zone Basic File I/O in PHP. (tags: php webdevelopment filesystem io) BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Obama speech censored in China Interesting. (tags: obama politics china usa censorship information communism inauguration) Main – browsersec – Browser Security Handbook landing page – Google Code How […]

  • links for 2009-01-20

    BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | China 'wants strong links to US' Makes sense on both sides. (tags: military china usa politics) 12 Useful Techniques For Good User Interface Design Some really good tips for a decent ui design. (tags: ui userinterface design webdesign webdevelopment) Schneier on Security: Michael Chertoff Claims that Hijackings were Routine Prior […]

  • Anonymous Comments and Comments with Meaningless Names are the Same Thing

    I recently had a friend recommend an artist (who is someone that they personally know). No problem, that’s the whole point of friends, doing stuff and letting other people know about it. However going to the CDBaby site of the artist, and taking a look at the reviews of the music I get this: Even […]