Why is HTML entity encoding *NOT* a standard function for Javascript — at least available when in the DOM? There are so many hacks for this

posted 9 months ago on October 2nd, 2009 at 15:59 /
Comments (View)

I love that it took me 10 minutes to download and install Sun’s VirtualBox and be up and running with an XP virtual machine for IE testing.

posted 9 months ago on October 2nd, 2009 at 13:31 /
Comments (View)

New job. New work laptop. New .bashrc file— Lots of new todos. Finding this alias is helpful: “alias todo=’echo $1 » ~/todo’”

posted 10 months ago on October 1st, 2009 at 19:49 /
Comments (View)

First gripe of the day is a small one: Indent level for Ruby files should be 2 spaces, not 4 :-p

posted 10 months ago on October 1st, 2009 at 19:49 /
Comments (View)

RT @stringbot: Palm is doomed. You really can’t afford to alienate your developers before you even have users. http://bit.ly/2JEMI

posted 10 months ago on September 30th, 2009 at 13:53 /
Comments (View)

As much as I like TextMate, it seriously has the most horrendous system halting “Search/Find in Project” feature in the history of software.

posted 10 months ago on September 29th, 2009 at 15:47 /
Comments (View)

Which best describes using the Visitor Pattern with Flow-Based Programming in a functional paradigm? Nomadic Monads or Monadic Nomads?

posted 10 months ago on September 29th, 2009 at 06:53 /
Comments (View)

So is this what whytheluckystiff is up to now? Way cooler than Shoes (maybe not as cool as Bloopsaphone though) http://www.why-yachts.com/

posted 10 months ago on September 29th, 2009 at 06:53 /
Comments (View)

Had to go to a command-prompt in Windows today. “ls” FAIL. “cat” FAIL. “tail” FAIL. “ln” FAIL. “grep” FAIL. This feels so alien to me now.

posted 10 months ago on September 29th, 2009 at 06:53 /
Comments (View)

Am about to go medieval. Just discovered that there is actually something worse than PHP. That is PHP on Windows. 3 more crap-filled days

posted 10 months ago on September 29th, 2009 at 06:53 /
Comments (View)