The more I look at it, the more it seems drawing graphs in javascript+html is the only viable option to get anything decent and useful. Gnuplot‘s graphs work, but they’re not all that pleasant to look at. Same goes for the graphing tools I’ve seen in python. Mathematica, I’m told, does a very decent job, [...]
My blog has been down for the better part of a week. It’s now back … almost … well mostly … it’s somewhat back! Before I tell you the story, let me pre-emptively deal with all the “advice” that starts flying in everytime there’s a problem with my blog: moving to not-wordpress is a problem [...]
The other week I was working on my compilers homework – the semantic analysis part is an object-oriented nightmare. Something called the visitor pattern to traverse trees and do weird stuff. It made me want to curl up in a fetal position in the corner, rocking back and forth in a padded room, while mumbling [...]
This is the screen I’ve been staring into for most of the day. It’s horrible. No way for a man to code. Or a woman. Or anyone really. If I had a child, this would be how I ground them – restrict text editor access to Skype. Why was I doing this all day you [...]
[18:21:38] <HairyFotr> _chatty-botko_ we desire to hear moar of you’re infinite wisdom [18:21:38] <_chatty-botko_> know it broken ? _chatty-botko_ doesn’t though gets IRC might seem quaint and outdated, but for keeping in touch with a group of friends it beats Twitter, Facebook and Google+ hands down. There’s a bunch of others on those things. With IRC [...]
Sometimes you need to ask a users for multiple answers to a single question. But what’s the best way to go about it? A multiselect input field is kind of strange for the user, sticks out and doesn’t really behave like everything else on the web. A bunch of checkboxes is better for the user [...]
This post is my first test of zemanta’s Blogspire, please tell me if you find this style of reblogging useful and I should do more in the future, or maybe I _should_ reblog, but differently. Thanks Nikos Maravitsas writes about What refactoring is and what it isn’t over at Java Code Geeks. Sometimes a programmer will [...]
The problem with RSS (aside from only being used by nerds) is that it is almost untrackable. Sure there’s Feedburner and Google Analytics can tell you how many people came to your blog specifically through clickthroughs. But when you’ve got the whole post right there in your reader, why would you ever want to clickthrough to [...]
ECMAscript, 6th edition might bring us fat arrow notation – Douglas Crockford on fat arrows function (x) { return x * x; } // becomes (x) => x * x Douglas’ post concerns itself mostly with the intricacies of how this is bound to the function objectand what the fat arrow notation might bring, what [...]
My language brings all the geeks to the yard, And they’re like “It’s better than yours” Damn right, it’s better than yours, I can teach you, but I have to charge Programming languages – the second favourite thing for geeks to fight about (right after code editors and IDE‘s). Everybody knows Java sucks, that PHP [...]
