February 2008
42 posts
January 2008
31 posts
Whoa. →
This has to be a joke. →
UPDATE: http://www.joyeur.com/2008/01/31/twitter-and-joyent-update — I wonder where they went…
This just seems so tongue-in-cheek at times. (via nate)
Dan Cederholm is on fire! →
Using the jquery.suggest plugin with CodeIgniter?
If so, you’ll have to make one small change to get jquery.suggest working with CI’s allowed URI chars feature.
Just change line 127 in jquery.suggest.js from this:
$.get
to this:
$.post
Done.
jstn:
Memcache’s default port number is Williamsburg’s zip code.
Haha! I forgot about that splendid coincidence. Oh 11211. I wonder if you can run Williamsburg in -vv mode…
Hmm. →
Just threw this on a few Backpack pages →
Twitter, sharks, et al. →
This post of Nate’s begs an interesting question: is there a point at which a web app has reached a state of flawlessness? In other words, are certain web apps inherently homeostatic, and if so, what defines or demarcates such a point? Is Twitter’s supposed lack of new, updated, or otherwise enhanced features a reason to use it less or become disheartened with the service? Why change a...
Dear web developers,
jakoblodwick:
Please set your cookies so that when I login to your site, I will be logged-in next time I visit, even if it’s months later. And please let me do this from multiple computers. I want to login one time per computer, ever. Thank you, Jakob Lodwick
Really. Where the heck did this arbitrary “keep me logged in for n days” thing come from? Chances are, if...
Just what the internet needs. Not. →
Maybe I’m just disappointed about all this waiting and secrecy over at their site for what?! A Facebook app. Great.
Strange PHP 5.1 bug with string literals
PHP 5.1 will attempt to parse the string literal passed in as the replacement before preg_replace() does its thing; PHP 5.2 seemingly does not.
"$1zes" will break in PHP 5.1 because $ is not properly escaped. PHP 5.2, for whatever reason (anyone have any ideas?) will not complain if the back reference $1 doesn’t have its $ escaped.
Go figure.
Microapps
I love the idea of micro-apps. In fact, I love the idea so much, I’ve just spent the last two hours writing a really minimal discussion system I’m calling Krowdd. You don’t even need an account to use it (thank you, OpenID); you just tell it who you are, head to a room, and start posting. Easy.
Now, do I think this will blow up? Nah. It’s mainly the result of a...
TextDrive (now part of Joyent) has one of the worst web-based admin panels I’ve ever seen.
Pass this one around, too. →
Come join our ranks. →
Removing existing features is almost more fun than building new ones!
I love getting really creative with spelling. →
I had a great lunchtime chat with this fellow... →
PHP 5.3 loves late static bindings! →
I wish ls really invoked ls -lh by default; I hate having to alias it.
UPDATE: I just noticed using backticks automatically formats the enclosed text as code. Brilliant.
It’s never felt so good to clean my bedroom and office area.
“You graduated from a university and have a technical degree. Ideally, your...”
– not Ning’s website (okay, it’s from Ning’s site.) — I can only laugh at this; it’s a huge fallacy that you absolutely must have a formal CS (or any degree, for that matter) degree to be a successful and skilled developer.
regarding PHP
ek: what happend (sic) in your childhood that makes you like to hurt yourself?
me: i was never touched.
BricaBox loves OpenID
I spent literally all day hooking up OpenID 1 and 2 (including sreg) support into the new BricaBox. It was exhausting.
We’re using the excellent janrain php-openid library, but for some reason, the coding gods were against me today.
First off, I found and fixed a small glitch or two in the library (now if I could only remember what I fixed) where php-openid would reference a class named...
I forgot how gorgeously Safari renders pages.
[UPDATE] I also love how it doesn’t use an annoying visual effect to display JS alerts. I just want to see the damn thing.
Shared knowledge
I believe there to be a little too much disjointedness in the much-trodden land of knowledge-sharing amongst fellow developers at present. Maybe I’m just too under-rested too much of the time, but there’s got to be a better way to share cool solutions to tough code problems than an AIM conversation here, coffee or drinks there, innumerable amounts of mailing lists, forums, email...
I’m loving jQuery right now.
“the one thing the PHP people did that got them to where they are today is to...”
– Dallas, on the DH blog
this will soon be me. →
“RoR has been so hyped that non-coders seriously think its like some pixie dust,...”
– a close colleague [via aim]