It must be an introvert techie thing
I just found out, while polishing an HTML5 presentation I gave earlier this year that I am going to present to a college class this week, that the original Dive Into HTML5 site is gone. In addition, it...
View ArticleHiring is dating
I came across this post, which is recommended reading for anyone who wants to understand the wage gap (between the sexes). Basically, it comes down to different approaches to negotiating during the...
View ArticleI'll see you tomorrow
One of the things that's really common as creative fodder is to make lists of types of people. Matt Groening used "The x types of y" as a staple in his Life in Hell cartoons. And recently I saw a post...
View ArticleA simple question
Two trending news articles on Hacker News today:John Graham-Cumming (jgc) singing the praises of text files and protocols. Pretty standard stuff, really.Matt Mayer's presentation on Unicode. Again,...
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Do you see what I see? (part 2)
[Back in October I blogged about my monitor setup at work. I have since "refined" it. :)]Here is my latest configuration:Mine's bigger than yoursFour monitors, all in portrait mode:2x ASUS 1080x1920...
View ArticleInteresting behavior when forwarding mail to Gmail
I have my own domain, which for illustration purposes we'll call z.com (since I get enough spam as it is, thanks). I use Gmail to pull any mail that comes to my main email address (e.g., foo@z.com) via...
View ArticleInteresting replacement for CAPTCHA
Interesting idea. Instead of the ever-illegible CAPTCHAs we are being presented with, how about playing a game to prove you’re a human?http://areyouahuman.com/Of course, this doesn’t get rid of the...
View ArticleGreat idea I won't implement
Someone else needs to make this happen. It won't be me.Consider how much time (time == money) is spent by millions of people every day logging into conference calls. This consists of:Calling a 10-digit...
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I like Pi
I finally ordered a Raspberry Pi last Friday and received it yesterday. I had it up and running in under an hour, and most of that was hunting down cables, etc. Some comments follow and then pictures.I...
View ArticleScott Hanselman achieves enlightenment
Well, sort of. In his post Everything's broken and nobody's upset, he correctly identifies the issue that all software is broken. The first step is admitting the problem. But then he ends with "I KNOW...
View ArticleZero-calorie comments
Just a quick post to hate on something that's been bugging me - "content-free," "information-free," "zero-calorie" comments. You know the type I'm talking about:// Get MIME type. public string...
View ArticleCool trick with contenteditable in HTML 5
I saw this post by Jose Jesus Perez Aguinaga via Hacker News yesterday - it basically allows you to turn your (modern) browser into a notepad by using the following in the address bar:data:text/html,...
View ArticleParsing HTML with SQL
A friend sent me the following request earlier this week:I was wondering if you knew how to use SQL to parse a column and return multiple individual records where text in that column is started with...
View ArticlePlease initial here and here and here
One of the things that came along in C# 3.0 that I really like is object initializers. How many times have you written code like this?var c = new Class1();c.Bar = 1;c.Baz = 2;c.Xyzzy = 3;Maybe Class1...
View ArticleFun with ISNUMERIC
This bit me today, so I thought I would put up a post about it. See, without looking at the answers below first, whether you can guess which of the following queries return 0 and which return 1 in SQL...
View ArticleClueless
I am going to purposefully leave the details of this post fuzzy because I don't want the company I am writing about, which I've never done business with before and hence don't know how they receive...
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Multiple monitors, resolution and "how much is too much?"
Consider the following Notepad++ window (if you're on Windows, you want it), open across all four of my main monitors, using Lucida Console 8 pt font, which is my normal code editing font setting. I...
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Stacked bar charts in ASP.NET with no code-behind
[This is posted as an intellectual exercise someone else may find interesting or useful.]I am currently working on a project at work that involves among other things gathering metrics for our various...
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Release my chains
Back in the dark days before the ubiquity of USB1 there was a standard for connecting devices called SCSI. As time went on it ended up having multiple interfaces such as "Fast SCSI" and "Ultra SCSI"...
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Problems connecting to a Windows Remote Desktop Gateway using Windows 8
I am writing this in case anyone finds it while searching for the following symptoms. It is the two things I had to do to get a Windows remote desktop (RDP) connection to consistently work from a...
View ArticleMoving off the Googleplex
I am slowly moving off Google properties. I no longer feel like giving my content to the All Seeing Eye. So I have migrated all these blog posts to my web site, dullroar.com, and all new content will...
View ArticleBetter living through user stylesheets II
[I posted a version of this a year ago. I've updated it for both Wiki's latest annoying campaign and to add Facebook's "stream" to the list. If you get real serious about this kind of thing, it is...
View ArticleDon't be such a lightweight
I like the concept of lightweight markup languages. All of them tend to have the same goals:Ability to edit with any text editorHuman-readable without a special programEasily convertible to other...
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