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 […]