Joel Spolsky is treated with reverence by the programming community. It seems like every blog post, comment, interview, Tumble, etc. that has his name associated with it ends up on Hacker News or Reddit. Certainly he has a profound impact on the programming community and many, many people take his words as gospel. I’ve been [...]
I love Google Chrome, especially on my 15-inch laptop screen. the minimal UI saves as much vertical space as possible, which is great for reducing the amount of scrolling I need to do when viewing websites. Lately though, I’ve been noticing a little graphical glitch in the program, and I’m not even using one of [...]
I started working a summer internship position with the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater in mid March. The university just purchased a Google Search Appliance and my job is the rollout of the appliance. Right now the university’s search is running on a Google Mini, which is quickly being outgrown. So, we’re developing a web service to [...]
At the end of the spring semester last year, I wrote about my ‘Minimal Hipster PDA’ technique that I planned to use for the following summer session and fall classes. I mentioned that my highfalutin’ task management systems, while usually fairly well thought out, generally get abandoned almost immediately. I hoped my Minimal Hipster PDA [...]
I’m using TwitterLibPHP on my band’s website to display the five most recent tweets from the band Twitter account in the page header. I’m also using the JQuery Cycle plug-in to rotate the tweets randomly. This is all well and good. I wanted to wrap any links in tweets pulled from the Twitter feed with [...]