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The Code Makes My Eyes Bleed
Not often do you stumble into projects that are pristine. I certainly haven't anyway. Almost every project I've been involved with has required some degree of unfarking to bring it to a close. But,...
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Be Vewy, Vewy Quiet! I'm Hunting Bugs.
There comes a point in every project, when stuff blows up. This could be your code, someone elses code, or could be a mix of the two. The traditional method to finding problems is a mix of guesswork...
View ArticleNew Host, New Posts, and the Inbetween.
Any of you who recently came to the site may have seen a "Godaddy" landing page. I've recently moved my hosting to Slicehost and am managing the domain with Godaddy. It's cheap and has an easy to use...
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Scratching An Itch
A couple friends an I were talking a few weeks ago about building applications. There are a handful of reasons for creating websites or web apps. The topic of discussion that day was about...
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WoW: Versioning Your Addons
If any of you are like me, you play World of Warcraft and love your mods. I try new mods all the time in the attempt to better my UI. I tend to look at it as a constant work-in-progress. So, I'm...
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JSConf 2009 - Where were you?
To say that JSConf 2009 was a whirlwind isn't giving it's creators enough credit. A few ways I'd describe it are action packed, intimate, and collaborative. From talking with Chris Williams, that was...
View ArticleGit: Tying a Remote Branch to an Existing Local Branch
As I was cleaning up my code directory and forking projects to have personal dev branches up on Github, I ran into a problem. I needed to tie a remote branch that I had created to an already existing...
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Implementing Java Interfaces from Javascript with Rhino
Rhino is a fairly awesome tool. You get the full capabilities of writing Javascript, plus the availability of the Java ecosystem. However, there is another awesome feature that I didn't know about...
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Foreplay and Programming Languages
Programmers will tell you that you should learn a new programming language every year. I'm not going to tell you otherwise. In fact I agree with this. Here's why, I believe that a language is just a...
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Beaker - Yet Another Web Server
In the pursuit of learning a new language I picked up Programming in Scala. I had fumbled around the Scala examples and read some of their documents like Scala by Example. I did replicate one of their...
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Fixing Mistakes - Some Thoughts On TDD/Rot/Debt
Software development is always a good way to realize that you're human. I'm sure there are other professions that give you this feeling as well, but my experience is limited to the software...
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Video Editing Software for Linux: Kdenlive
Linux has some great software built for it and the video editing arena is no different. The videos that I create tend to be fraps based out of games, but they still require some editing. I was...
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Adapting To Change
Homework If you watch the following video with Trent Reznor, it's about 40 minutes long, you'll likely understand the rest of this post. But, for the TL;DL crowd, the interview had a lot of undertones...
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Apache Modules, SEOversite and Debugging C
At Axiom Software we're working on the next release of SEOversite. It's been exciting. This is basically a tutorial on debugging the Apache HTTPd side of things (keep in mind that this is as much an...
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Buzz Words Killed the Radio Star
I'm ideating a method proposition to add enterprise grade value which will synergize your verticals. *cringe* Hold on a second...I need to go wash off the dirty. In all of what I typed above, I didn't...
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Karmic and Phonon: Not Found
This AM I was attempting to update my existing version of Choqok and received an error. I thought I'd share since it did take a couple of minutes to find a solution for fixing. Dependencies: I'm...
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Locales and LC_CTYPE
Recently I added another slice to my list of servers but whenever I add slices on Slicehost with Ubuntu, they come with the locale problem. You might recognize it. The following shows up in almost...
View ArticleSo you want to learn NodeJS and see what the fuss is about?
If you're looking for a coding tutorial you're in the wrong place, but if you'd actually like to learn NodeJS then stick around. This will cover the basics so that you can understand why things work...
View ArticleNodeJS project management with NPM
I've seen questions for this topic come up repeatedly so I figured I'd throw something down to refer people to. :) If you're interested in NodeJS, and I'm betting that you are, then you'll be wanting...
View ArticleInternet Censorship: SOPA and PIPA
While posterous will not allow me to add JS to blackout my site, I figured I'd use this space to throw up some information for those unaware of these two bills. Please, if there is one thing you do...
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