Daniel tonight told me that he hadn’t yet seen a good implementation of an ajax application, that they’re always too slow and the delay bugs him. I really don’t know what he’s talking about so maybe I should have clarified, although I think it’s possible that he’s used ajax on sites that aren’t so [...]
My simple-mindedness means I’m a bit of a minimalist, which is why I prefer the Google Talk instant messaging experience to MSN’s Messenger. Nevertheless, as with most things Microsoft, the Rest of The World(tm) seems to use MSN, so if I want to talk to them I’ve gotta use it too.
I’ve fluffed around a [...]
The Flangy Guide to Hating VBScript is a better written, more complete and more technically correct version of my post a few months ago which I eloquently titled “VBScript is crap“. Flangy covers the main gripe I covered, which was about the inconsistency of when parentheses are needed, and actually explains what the story [...]
I really need to get on the Ruby (and more specifically, Rails) bandwagons. I mean, with quotes like these:
It takes about half or less code to put my stuff together in RoR than it did in PHP, ASP, ASP.NET, etc.
I use to worry about giving my client an estimate and then running over the [...]
Whooo!
iinet recently upgraded their DSLAMs to allow full ADSL2+ connection (ergh, PDF) for those on the enabled exchanges. Which I gleefully happen to be.
Modem Status Connected
DownStream Connection Speed 17153 kbps
UpStream Connection Speed 1023 kbps
That’s right, 17.1 megabits per second.
They have this little utility in the iiNet Toolbox, the online account self-administration [...]
There’s a heap of things I want to get done, but choosing to sit in front of the computer is really hard on days like today. The weather is perfect, and it seems like such a waste to sit inside working on my programmer’s tan when I have a convertible and the weather is [...]
I recently discovered dia, a little program for drawing diagrams of a bunch of different types. I found it while trying out Ubuntu linux, but it also works on Windows.
I really like Dia, it doesn’t do as much as Visio or even SmartDraw, but I don’t even want or need the features they have. [...]
Hooray, books:
Greetings from Amazon.com,
We thought you’d like to know that we shipped your items, and that this completes your order.
…etc…
The following items were included in this shipment:
Qty
Item
Price
1
Code Complete, Second Edition
$31.78
1
Peopleware : Productive Proje
$33.95
1
Rapid Development
$23.10
1
The Best Software Writing I:
$16.49
Item Subtotal:
$105.32
Shipping & Handling:
$26.95
Total:
$132.27
I’m looking forward to getting these, I’ve wanted to [...]
The Cisco VPN Client Broke TCP/IP!
We have some clients who use Cisco PIX firewalls, and to access their systems we need to logon using the Cisco VPN Client. Normally this is no problem — you just install the client, configure the VPN you’re connecting to and you’re outta there. But for some reason [...]
I don’t know what the situation is like in turbo-consumer USA, but here in Australia lots of people, especially old-school IT people and smaller businesses, still like to build their own PCs from commodity parts when they need a new desktop or server box. That’s all fine and good fun when you’re building [...]