Archive for the ‘General Programming’ Category

Head of the Class

Once again Webkit is teh win! But with a tutor like Dave Hyatt how could it not? Right behind them of course it Opera, but they’re not shipping the fixes until they’re done their current release cycle for Opera 9.5. Meanwhile Firefox is still stuck at 68/100, and well IE8… See me after class. Tweet

Peak WEB

Incase you didn’t realize the title of this post and the previous one – PEAK CRUFT – are a reference to Peak Oil, and in all 3 we can expect drastic changes. Again I’m referencing the Joel on Software article about Martian Headsets… which recently has received quite a bit of flack. There’s a certain [...]

Peak CRUFT

There’s only so much bailing wire and bubble gum you can tack on before the thing is going to just fall apart. And the creaking you’re hearing is Windows.

Winnipeg Code Camp

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } This weekend was the Winnipeg Code Camp. You can see my flickr set of photos of the event here Tweet

The History of the World (Wide Web) Part 1

So tonight I saw a presentation at the local .net user group meeting on Silverlight. And though it was ok, I figured I could prob do better for the people who were wondering what exactly Silverlight was…

Programmer Personality

Apparently my programmer personality type is: DLTC You’re a Doer. You are very quick at getting tasks done. You believe the outcome is the most important part of a task and the faster you can reach that outcome the better. After all, time is money. You like coding at a Low level. You’re from the [...]

More Cathedral

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Updates

So… obviously I updated Word Press here on my blog (I hadn’t done it in quite a while) and so my template is slighlty screwed currently (As well as the white space in my previous entries). Work related stuff has slacked off slightly, since we’ve launched the 2006 model year for volvo, but don’t worry [...]