In a moment of weakness today, I considered creating a client for the ebay api which would poll for updated bidding history on a handful of auctions, and store that information in a simple database. It would make for suitable content to syndicate into the mt forum thread tracking the financial victory of Ping. Sadly, [...]
Sigh. Finished my absurdly absurd Java project for 60-212 – Introduction to OO Java. You can download a zipped tarball of the mess, if you want, though I promise it’s god-awful.
Things I have learned in this class: Java sucks hardcore. It is completely useless for any actual task, regardless of complexity. Exception error handling and [...]
I’ve maintained a strict preference for keyboards with large travel, a satisfying clack, a brutish durability. J’s laptop is good for a laptop, in that most laptops outright suck in this department, but still nowhere near the awesome of the keyboards preferred. I direct you to the old IBM Modem M keyboards, and certain old [...]
Greg Dean over at RealLifeComics has been using Wordpress to power his rant engine for a while. However, partially due to the methodology used to integrate wp into IonComix (a service of Cologuys), he never got commenting working.
Lacking any of the gurus originally requested, I pointed out a few things about the way wp assembles [...]
I wrote a 62-212 Java Lab Test today. Generate and validate magic squares. Which is not particularly hard, but has oodles of anal looping constructs. Add that this was my first half-complicated chunk of java, with all the debugging and class-hunting that ensues, and I took 78.5 of the alotted 80 minutes. That’s cutting it [...]
Ryan Campbell has a nice article outlining a methodolody for developing degradable ajax over at Particletree. An excellent idea, and one no doubt that’s been in use for a while. I’ve found a lack of codified standards of developing and debugging gracefully-degrading ajax applications. Hopefully this can be the beginning of change.
Update (2006-10-09): This has been supplanted by the WPOpenID plugin.
Threw together a quick’n’dirty plugin for Wordpress this afternoon, now accepting arbitrary local account creation for OpenID identities. Anyone with an LJ or other OpenID server should be able to login and comment on this post.
Update: As requested, you can download the wordpress openid plugin source. [...]
I had a working ajax implemention of OpenID, but it’s broken now. I’ve poked and prodded it, and quite frankly I have no idea what happened. I suspect it might be a schroedinbug, which is why I havn’t asked the list about it, for fear of infecting their mindpsace. Two seperate implementations of mine, on [...]
Internet Explorer doesn’t believe us when we claim “Content-type: text/plain”, and just makes something up. MSIE employees admit this content type non-compliance, but have done nothing to fix it, under the banner of backwards compatability.
In effect, if IE is told the file format is text/plain, but it encounters html-looking text, it assumes it to be [...]
Computers, code, networks, these can be beautiful, magical things. Not a sort of mystical blackboxedness, but intricate intertwined systems. There’s a steady decay present, in all walks of life, from these magical places to one far darker. This haven for banality is one I strive to avoid, for I fear it. These magical energies were [...]