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Opt-In?

Yesterday I ordered tickets on Fandango, at the end of the process I was rewarded with a familiar popup window at the bottom of the browser. Turns out, Fandango are nice enough to automagically add a post to your Facebook minifeed when you order movie tickets through them. The sad part is that this is turned on […] Also tagged
2008 08 17
1 year, 6 months ago. Software Comments (0)

Make

Much to my chagrin, I seem to be finding myself in need of understanding and making fundamental changes to Makefiles for various projects I’m not familiar with, every few months. I’ve found the $(warning “foo”) and $(error “foo”) directives pretty useful in this capacity, the former printing some text during a Makefile’s evaluation, and the latter […] Also tagged
2008 05 18
1 year, 9 months ago. Software Comments (2)

Does “years of experience” matter for programmers?

I just saw Jeff Atwood’s article on the subject of programmer experience. Programmer Experience Jeff questions the correlation between a programmer’s experience and their programming ability, he also talks about company’s who won’t hire anyone without experience in the exact system they need the developer to work on. Software development is a funny thing - while there is […] Also tagged
2008 02 08
2 years, 1 month ago. Software Comments (5)

Dion & Steve’s RoR Chat

Dion Almaer posted a great interview with Steve Yegge concerning his port of Ruby On Rails to Javascript - “Rhino On Rails“. Rhino On Rails sounds incredibly cool, but I wanted to talk about some of the other stuff Steve mentions in the interview. Some people think that the web needs a new architecture: Web development is unimaginably […] Also tagged , , ,
2008 01 30
2 years, 1 month ago. Software Comments (3)

Wow, that took a long time…

Wow, I’m glad I’m finally updating the old frame-based website I set up years ago. I guess I’ve never really had time to bite the bullet and re-write the site properly, from the ground up myself. Doing this wouldn’t only mean writing the HTML, because what I really wanted was a CMS with support for a […] Also tagged
2008 01 21
2 years, 1 month ago. Software Comments (2)