Finding a needle in a haystack is a wonderful bit of symbolism and I welcome its use in many situations. It’s just the implementation of that symbolism that needs to be standardised. For forgetting the order in which a function expects variables to be passed in is tedious. In PHP, for example, there are some [...]
Archive for October, 2009
Why am I enjoying this?
October 10th, 2009
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Strictly Come Dancing has never been the sort of programme to hold my attention. But whilst I’m keeping my darling girlfriend company, I seem to be distracted from my laptop by the show. The audience annoys me with their reaction to the judges. Bruce annoys me for having lost it years ago. But everybody else [...]
Give me back my focus!
October 1st, 2009
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Applications which steal input focus are pure scum. The only times that a new window should take focus are: application launched by the user. alert box instigated by the application currently with focus. Whilst I’m coding in an editor, I do NOT want the virus scanner to pop up to say its finished running and [...]
