Category Archives: Programming

Lazy Programmers

From Microsoft Excel for Mac:

I sure love being told that the programmers knew exactly what I was trying to do, but decided they weren’t going to bother doing it for me.

By Programmers, For Programmers

Another cross-platform development solution hit the geek news sites recently: Lina. According to their website,
With LINA, a single executable written and compiled for Linux can be run with native look and feel on Windows, Mac OS X, and UNIX operating systems.
Native look and feel, eh? Not likely. There’s a clue right [...]

Dear Travelocity Web Developers,

The plus character (+) is a valid character in an email address.
Stop telling me it isn’t.
Actually, Web Developers in general, please take note of that fact. Half of you are guilty of the same thing.
But much more importantly, don’t let me sign up with a ‘+’ in my email address if your “forgot your [...]

I Can Neither Play the Drums Nor the Piano

I’m not a particularly smart guy. I don’t retain information well, and I’m prone to intuition over reason. I do math slowly, not in firey blasts.
That’s one reason I like programming. I can get away with being mediocre 90% of the time. For the price of persistence, I get to seem [...]

A Thoughtful Apparatus

I work as a software engineer. It’s a pretty swank gig. I get paid to build ideas.
Building, of course, has traditionally been a physical enterprise. If I suddenly time-shifted into an English-speaking village at the turn of the ninth century and tried to convince a passing gentleperson I build ideas [...]