Here’s something really easy to screw up: Spot the mistake? The “m” format code can only mean one thing, which is “months”, not “minutes”. Yet, when you’re writing code in a hurry, it’s so easy to quickly write this code and assume it works. After all, it raises no errors or warnings, and always generates [...]

If you’re like most hackers, you’ve spent so much time on the computer that the jargon and lingo have become natural. You instinctively know where the OK and Cancel buttons are, and get upset when they’re switched around for no apparent reason. You scan dialog boxes and make the right decision in a second, because [...]

Today marks my final move from uncool, mainstream shared hosting to the fantastic world of pay-what-you-need technology mash-ups. Shared hosting… I used to have shared hosting at Site5. They were OK. I really can’t complain much except that their dashboard functionality for hosting multiple domains on one account seemed archaic. I signed up almost exactly [...]

All I wanted was for a legend tag to fill up its box horizontally, much like an h1 or div does by default. Apparently, legend tags are special and don’t follow the same rules as other tags in WebKit, and what I wanted to do was simply impossible. Since I wasn’t the one to choose [...]

… in JavaScript. A number of events and coincidences have reminded me about functional programming and parallelism lately, especially an example I saw of Clojure’s pmap: pmap function Usage: (pmap f coll)        (pmap f coll & colls) Like map, except f is applied in parallel. Semi-lazy in that the parallel computation stays ahead of the [...]

Git-dude is a cool little thing. Given a directory of git repos, it continually fetches updates and displays a popup if you get any new commits. When I first saw it on Google Plus, somebody inexplicably commented, “This is a neat thing and I dont [sic] think there is a mercurial equivalent.” Given that Git [...]

Here are the iOS keycodes for the keyDown and keyPress events in JavaScript as generated by an iPad running iOS 4.3.3:

“To perform the requested action, connection information is required.” My earlier post on WordPress with NearlyFreeSpeech.net was too hastily written. There are more issues than WP not wanting to use the direct upgrader, and editing WordPress code is not the right way to solve it either. Problem 1: WordPress doesn’t want to use the direct [...]

If your cellphone didn’t come preconfigured for T-Mobile (e.g. iPhone), you may need these APN settings to access the Internet: APN: internet2.voicestream.com Leave the username and password blank.