Software As She’s Developed

Tagyu (via Lifehacker) accepts a URL (or some text) and gives you some tags. Tags for AjaxPatterns: ajax javascript programming web Tags for SoftwareAs.com: ajax tech webdesign design blog webdev web_2.0 Consarn it! It actually did a good job! I was hoping something off the mark. […]

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You’re right, Jason - the voice behind “Developers, Developers, Developers” is Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. I thought it would be fun to include the clip over my podcast theme. Hearing Jason explain he had to pull over while laughing so hard makes it all worthwhile! I’ve seen few things that make people laugh so […]

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Apparently, blogging is not in the interests of graduate students. Hannibal @ arstechnica agrees: Ultimately, I think the answer to this dilemma is pretty clear: graduate students simply should not blog, and if they do blog they should never do so under their real names. As a grad student, your writing time is much […]

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After accidentally searching for “XMLHttpRequest” in Google Maps and discovering no such location exists, I wondered about the fate of half.com, Oregon. This is the town which changed its name from Halfway to half.com during the tulip-mania of the late 90s. Half.com the company continues as an ebay subsite and half.com the town lives on […]

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Updated May 16, 2005: Fixed link. James Strachan discovers Radio Lover. I use Replay Radio, another program which records internet radio and pushes it into ITunes. The big problem is handling of timezones - it doesn’t track the timezone you’re specifying program times in, so you have to keep adjusting times to account for daylight […]

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This post on Google Suggest has rocketed me into 2nd place for searches on “gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle”. And a respectable six - that’s 6 short of a dozen! - people or robots have visited softwareas on that basis (thus triggering this investigation). And guess what the number 1 hit is. Actually, don’t. You’ll cringe. Now, it all makes […]

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Seems the market for blackjack among software developers just got bigger. The spammers have unleashed a torrent of trackbacks over the past fortnight, finally provoking me into an upgrade. So I’ve moved to wordpress 1.5, and simultaneously pushed the older podcast MP3s off here to an archive location. Hopefully, your aggregator won’t get the old stuff […]

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It’s the extensions that really make firefox, but unfortunately they’re gone when you change to a different PC. While in the process of rebuilding firefox on a different PC, here are my favourite extensions I’ll be installing. They should all be available from http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/. Must-haves: These two tools dramatically increase browsing performance Tabbrowser Extensions - Powerful tab-based […]

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I incur at least the following spam types: Comment Spam So I disallowed comments. I’m hoping the next stable WordPress upgrade will help to fix it; otherwise, I’d be tempted to add a “I’m a human” checkbutton. Trackback Spam Apparently, there is some hunger for a worthwhile online casino among readers of this blog. I need to […]

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Coding Horror lists prices for TextPad replacements: # UltraEdit - $40 # EditPlus - $30 # EditPad Pro - $40 # TextPad - $32 # EmEditor - $40 # NoteTab Pro - $20 My obligatory reaction: Vim - priceless Portable, Powerful, Programmable. Smart IDEs are great, but there’s always a need to edit plain text files, e.g. config files on a server, and documents too. […]

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