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If you're a fan of South Park, or even if you're not, maybe you've heard of the following business plan (courtesy of the Underpants Gnomes):Step 1 - Collect underpantsStep 2 - ???Step 3 - Profit!Ahhh...
View ArticleTimely Obsessions
Every day I see more and more tech benchmarks. Years ago it was mostly for PC video cards and CPUs. To me that makes sense. You need a relative perspective to see how much you're getting for your...
View ArticleJava Import Brilliance
I am working on a project that originated from a third party contracting company. The code base is horrendous and full of the most amaturish code you can imagine. Here is a sterling example:import...
View ArticleIE 6: The End Is Nigh
Ahh Internet Explorer 6. Non-standards compliant. Unsecure. Unreliable. A web designer's arch enemy and a support person's nightmare. There aren't many insults one could hurl at it that it hasn't heard...
View ArticleProgramming Doesn't Always Require Math
This is a response to a recent blog post which poses the question "Do we need to know basic math as programmers?" The author seems to think little of those who have weak math skills. Based on the...
View ArticleAre 2-Digit Years Due For A Comeback?
The problem Y2K embodied was that years were being stored as 2 digits on many software systems. 1999 was abbreviated as 99. When the year flipped to 2000, many were not sure what would happen with...
View ArticleDeveloping a web browser support plan
When I started working at my current company, our QA department was testing our website with every web browser they knew of. Certainly 100% cross-browser pixel-perfect rendering is every developer's...
View ArticleFriends of Eclipse
I just became a "Friend of Eclipse". I've been using the IDE regularly for both work and home projects and I figured it was about time I made a donation. I encourage everyone to help out by donating...
View ArticleStopping link onclick from causing the browser to jump around
Often we may use links to enact Javascript functions in this fashion:<a href=”#” onclick=”dosomething();”>click me</a>While this works, the browser thinks you clicked on an anchor link and...
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