That word, again?
Here’s some terms I would like the media to stop using immediately. It’s time to get creative again, start exercising your brains, jump off the buzzword bandwagon and stroll through your thesaurus for a bit:
Weapon(s) of mass destruction. Just because it can kill someone doesn’t mean its a weapon of mass destruction (unless you’re truly [...]
Brent, you owe me ;-)
Pineapple is my software albatros. Originally created in REALbasic it got to a degree of complexity that made continuing development in REALbasic impractical (see this post for details). I decided to rewrite Pineapple in Objective-C to be able to implement the full set of functionality that I want but there’s one problem with that: I’ve [...]
Of defaults and permissions in PHP
I just noticed that the mkdir() function in PHP uses 0777 as the default permission setting. This strikes me as odd since, in years as a PHP developer, I can’t recall ever once wanting to create a directory that was completely wide-open. Almost always it’s been something closer to 0755.
I wonder why 0777 was chosen [...]
Sue the boob
It was an inevitability I suppose: a class action lawsuit over Janet Jackson’s Super Bowl performance:
It took almost three days, but the first lawsuit has been filed in connection with Janet Jackson’s breast. A Tennessee woman yesterday filed a proposed class action lawsuit “on behalf of all Americans” who watched the Super Bowl halftime show [...]
Roy Blyth on optimization
Rory “Neopoleon.com” Blyth on when to optimize code, using a potential interview question as an example:
Before knowing what the string reversal function was going to be used for, and before knowing how often it was going to be used, these guys were pumping out more and more complex (and fragile in some cases) versions of [...]
They screw you at the drive-through
This morning it occurred to me that I still had a long-dormant E*Trade account I’d completely forgotten about. Wondering what might still be in it I wandered over and tried to log in. Given that I’d opened it during the dot-com boom and hadn’t used it in about three years I figured I’d find it [...]
Pictu 0.2.4a3
About Pictu: http://www.postal-code.com/pictu/
Download Pictu: http://www.postal-code.com/public/Pictu0.2.4a3.sit
This is an Alpha release which means it may have bugs, may be missing features, and may be aesthetically displeasing. Send all your comments and bug reports to chris@postal-code.com.
New in this release:
- Support for dropping images onto Dock icon
- Much faster image display of local images when viewing preferences or Picture [...]
Pictu 0.2.4a2. Now with PictuVision
This latest version of Pictu sports some spiffy new features, the most notable of which is: PictuVision.
PictuVision is a window into what other people are viewing with Pictu. In PictuVision mode Pictu grabs a random image from the PictuVision server, downloads it, and displays it in your Pictu window.
“Where do these downloaded images come from?” [...]