Category: Programming
I Hoped You Would Fail
melgray: I sat there spinning in my desk chair grinning like an idiot with one of my fellow devs when he let it slip: “I hoped you would fail”. He even threw up a little fist jab as if to gesture, “hip hip hooray”.
Secret Santa Project
It’s the holiday season and that means you are buying a lot of gifts and probably along the way doing at least one gift exchange. Probably the most well known of these (at least here in the US) is Secret Santa. My family does Secret Santa amongst ourselves and this year I decided to modernize […]
SQL: The Basics
SQL is a domain specific language (a language designed to do one thing and knock the socks off at doing it) that just accesses databases. Okay but what is a database? Well a database is essentially a collection of data, yeah I know that doesn’t help much. To clarify we’ll play a little mental exercise. […]
The Case for Web Applications
Recently Neil McAllister wrote a column for InfoWorld making his case against web applications. I want to make my own case for web applications, pretty convenient since that’s what I want to do as a full time job. It’s client-server all over again Scaling small server farms to meet demand can be a real challenge […]
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 […]
Why, Texas Tech, Why???
This is a screenshot for an internal Texas Tech site labeled “Experts Guide”. The site is designed so that experts in fields can say that they are experts in the field and gain recognition and other people in Texas Tech can call upon the resources available at Texas Tech to work on projects. Okay so […]
Basic C# Networking Project
For a computer science class, Remoting and Networking with C#, we had a networking project to do that I thought I would put out to see if it helps anyone else looking for a basic networking project with .NET. The project can be found here. As usual the code is licensed with an MIT License, […]