http://www.postal-code.com/binarycode A whole bunch of nought thought by Chris Cummer Tue, 21 Oct 2008 02:41:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Today's my birthday and, as is inevitable with all birthdays, people ask "what would you like?" This year I'd like something a little different. Since January I've been working with a group of fantastic people to help create DreamBank, a web site who's goal - and our hope - is to ... http://www.postal-code.com/binarycode/2008/10/20/dreambank-for-my-birthday/ I fully support this metric: A New Code Metric : Destroyed Lines Of Code (DLOC). I suspect that deleting extraneous lines of code is often far, far more enjoyable than actually writing that code in the first place. We all know that the first dump of code for any feature of ... http://www.postal-code.com/binarycode/2008/10/20/dloc/ In which Jason tears apart and then rebuilds Axe's rather clichéd ad, and in the process makes it funny instead of just dumb: When Copywriters Try To Program. Awesome. http://www.postal-code.com/binarycode/2008/10/20/win-jasonp0wn-axead/ Congrats to Colin Oberst who's "Canadian Gold" is now the new Hockey Night in Canada theme song (though the original will always be Canada's second national anthem I suspect). And congrats to the Mudmen who play the bagpipes on "Canadian Gold". Good stuff indeed. Now if I were the CBC, I'd re-record ... http://www.postal-code.com/binarycode/2008/10/12/congrats-to-canadian-gold/ The dearth of quality resumes has become a pretty common theme amongst bloggers in positions of hiring authority. And every post seems to be driven by how amazingly poorly written most resumes and cover letters actually are. Robert Scoble is the latest to weigh in with some quality advice and ... http://www.postal-code.com/binarycode/2008/10/06/scoble-on-resumes/ Over the weekend I was mucking about with my soon-to-be-released-for-public-consumption site when all of a sudden I started getting routing errors on my stylesheets. Madness, that, expecting to need to define a controller and action for stylesheets. Imagine! Turns out the problem was not with routing per se but with the ... http://www.postal-code.com/binarycode/2008/10/06/my-stylesheets-dont-route/ Via Obie Fernandez, the Me Meme. 1.Take a picture of yourself right now. 2. Don’t change your clothes, don’t fix your hair…just take a picture. (should be super-easy with Photobooth) 3. Post that picture with NO editing. 4 Post these instructions with your picture. http://www.postal-code.com/binarycode/2008/10/03/the-me-meme/ Wondering what the hell just happened (is happening) to the global banks? This New York Times article is the best accounting of it I've read thus far: As Credit Crisis Spiraled, Alarm Led to Action. This is what a credit crisis looks like. It’s not like a stock market crisis, where ... http://www.postal-code.com/binarycode/2008/10/02/the-credit-crisis-in-a-nutshell/ Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols of Computerworld soundly debunks the myth that Linux is developed by unpaid hobbyists in their spare time in Who writes Linux: Corporate America: I'm not sure why the silly notion that "Only .10068% of Linux kernel developers are paid" keeps circulating, but it does. So, let me just ... http://www.postal-code.com/binarycode/2008/10/01/debunking-the-unpaid-labour-linux-myth/ If you're in Vancouver and you're looking for a great job on an interesting project: DreamBank is hiring. http://www.dreambank.org DreamBank is about creating an alternative to traditional gift giving in a way that helps both the planet and important social causes. We're currently looking for one more software developer with solid experience developing ... http://www.postal-code.com/binarycode/2008/10/01/dreambank-is-hiring-again/