If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! For many years now I’ve been using STRIP, the Secure Tool for Recalling Important Passwords, on my Palm Pilot to store passwords for websites and other important information like bank account numbers.
The time has come for a change, [...]
By this time tomorrow I’ll be unemployed, and I’ve got no job lined up.
As it happens, I’m not in a rush to find another position. I’ve got some funds and some personal projects and travel to keep me busy until I find something that appeals. But of course I’m keeping my eyes [...]
Recently I’ve been working on MiniMVC, a very tiny MVC framework based on Mason. When I’ve mentioned it to people, I’ve had a surprisingly high number say that they’ve heard of MVC — the Model-View-Controller pattern — but aren’t quite sure what it means in practice.
So here’s a demonstration, in AMAZING TECHNICOLOR! [...]
What, Google doesn’t know Elaine’s Rule? Named for Elaine Ashton, who runs some of the vital perl.org servers and is generally an all-round worthwhile person in the Perl community:
Just fucking make it easy to install.
Or, as Adam pointed out, you can mix it up a bit:
Just make it fucking easy to install.
Just make [...]
How do you install a PHP web application?
Generally it goes like this:
Download zip file Unzip on your PC Edit a config file Upload to your web host Point your browser at install.php
How do you install a Perl web application?
Well, it depends, but a lot of them go like this:
Login to your shell account on your web host — [...]
A discussion else-blog in response to Part 1 of my series on why it sucks to be an Australian geek:
Mary provides further discussion of laptop price markups in Australia. Russell Coker describes (technically) illegal ways to import laptops if you really want to save some money. Mary points out that of course it’s possible to import [...]
Another couple of reasons why it sucks to be an Australian geek. The first article covered the high costs of bandwidth, hardware, technical books, and everything associated with domain registration and hosting. Now let’s talk geography.
Timezones are the first problem. When I’m at work, the US [...]
The subject of Second Life keeps coming up lately, and every time it does I think back to LambdaMOO, where I spent way too much time in the mid 90s, building fantastic worlds and learning to program in what — as it turned out — would be the first of many object oriented languages.
To [...]
I’ve had the draft of this article kicking around in Wordpress for weeks now, and not posted it. I guess I thought it sounded too whiny. Well, yes, it is whiny. What’s more, having just quit my job and decided to go job-hunting overseas again, I now realise that writing this [...]
Yesterday morning I woke up to find that one of the posts on my Geek Etiquette blog had been Dugg.
Within half an hour, my site was offline.
I spent a good chunk of the day dealing with my first “digg effect”, and thought it might be interesting to write up.
Timeline
All times are in Australian east [...]
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