XTreme Fandom
I’m all-for being a fan and promoting what you believe in, and maybe I’m taking my purism to an obscene level, but there are just some things that you have to laugh at or else you’ll go nuts.
Last week, Facebook launched vanity URLs, like your MySpace usernames only with “facebook.com/” in front of them and [...]
MS Slices X-Path to Ribbons
Microsoft has a history of creating things that are one-off mainstream, (or Open Source), in what they call an effort of efficiency or a claim to sticking to standards. In reality, they’ve just muddied the waters for developers looking to make the web more ubiquitous.
IE8 continues this misguided charge with Web Slices, a particular element [...]
$c is not always $a["c"]
Today I was tipped off to a certain quirk of PHP, specifically with how it handles Array resources. Every programmer knows, (or should know), the differences between creating a new copy of a variable and making a new reference to the same variable. In PHP, as far as I’ve known, you never access memory directly. [...]
Zen and the Art
Programming, specifically the intelligent design of such constructs, has always been at least twenty percent mimicry. Someone shows us how to write an efficient binary toggle and the practice stays with us. Learning how to find exclusive results between two SQL tables can shave minutes off of execution time, and your boss will certainly be [...]