Beta, my ass! When exactly did the words ‘demo’ and ‘beta’ get mixed up? Back in the old days, a demo version was an incomplete version of the game, given out to drum up interest in the end product, whereas a beta version was a complete version of the game …
Triggered by this post on Bram Cohen’s blog, I posted up this reply. I think I’d better outline what I’m talking about.
Ireland uses the Single Transferrable Vote for just about everything, including by-elections and presidential elections. However, it’s always struck me that the concept of …
I’m spending a lot of time connected via Windows Remote Desktop to an external network so that I can do work on their machines.
So here’s a question: are there any IT departments out there that are using this to give their users old-style dumb terminals so as …
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I’ve edited this down a little bit. A snapshot of the original post is here.
I’m a fan of unobtrusive JavaScript and I’ve strove to make my JavaScript code as unobtrusive as possible for years now.
However, I discovered something about IE a while ago when …
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A cache of the original can be found here.
I hit an annoying problem with a project at work. It’s not my fault, there’s nothing wrong with the code, but sometimes things will happen: people will delete images out of the backend, not upload the image they …
While Sage is the closest I’ve ever got to an RSS aggregator I actually liked, it’s still not right. There are just too many things about it that irk me somewhat.
I’ve tried so many of the blasted things and a few things have been confirmed for …
Sales are great. I picked up a copy of China Miéville‘s The Scar in Hardback for next to nothing!
Also, Waterstones finally managed to source a copy of Describing Morphosyntax for me. I placed an order for it two months ago, and it only came on Friday. This is …
Ever since reading Terence Parr’s Enforcing Strict Model-View Separation in Template Engines (PDF), I’ve wanted something like StringTemplate for PHP.
Maybe not something exactly the same, but a templating system that would perform similarly as far as the person developing the templates would be concerned, but the coder …
Right now I’m worried. I haven’t posted up anything since it happened because I didn’t know what to write, but I’m worried about Thérèse and Vinnie, two friends of mine who are travelling through SE Asia right now.
I haven’t heard word from them in …
I wrote this ages ago, but I want to post it somewhere so I won’t lose it if my phone dies or something. And vanity, of course.
Model: Nokia 3310 Tempo: 180BPM
2c2 4c2 2f2 4f2
2e2 4e2 2c2 4c2
2d2 4d2 4c2 4d2
4c2 4b1 4a1 2g1
4g1 …I’ve been keeping quiet about this for ages, but now I can talk about it.
Some of my friends are after opening a gaming café here in Cork. The quality of the existing ones isn’t that great and, seeing as we all go gaming pretty often, they decided …
I’m changing the name of my ColdFusion-based wiki engine to FusionWiki. Why? I want to put it up on SourceForge, and KWiki was already taken. And it’s a cool name.
I applied to have the project created just today, so it might take a while before they get …
I’ve a project here at work. I need to write a ColdFusion custom tag in Java to talk to a remote server. This tag needs to handle a bunch of different requests and responses, but putting all that code in the one class would be a bit messy, and …
Sweet mother!
I had to head off to CIT to pick up some tickets for the graduation ball. When I got back to the offices, things were fine, but Dan’s after looking outside the window, and the city’s completely flooded! It took just 40mins for a one-foot deep …
I was talking to Peter last night about Laszlo. There are these times you need confirmation of why you have difficulty going off and either learning or writing something. I’ve a few projects like this, and something he said, quite off the cuff mind you, was a trigger.
He …
An idea’s been bouncing around in my head for a while now. Right now, I don’t have any comment moderation, and I wouldn’t like to have to build a moderation system, primarily not because of the difficulty—it’s not hard—but because I don’t like …
I’d really like to know if there’s a way to set up a callback of some kind that would allow a program to be informed of when a certain file is updated. Not just any file, but a particular file.
I’ve taken a look through MSDN, disorganised …
Feck, I’d might as well post it now.
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An old post from the second iteration of my blog. I was actually pretty down on myself back then about all this, though it only comes out here and there. This attempt, as you might guess, failed.
There’s one thing that I really dislike about myself, and that …
Here’s a mad idea I had a few months back: if we can use bayesian filtering on spam, why not use it to automagically categorise entries? It’s not going to be foolproof, but it would be an interesting experiment, and it may just work! We wouldn’t need …