Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at 10:17PM Here's another Squarespace tutorial for you. This one's a bit shorter than the last one. In this tutorial, I'll show you how to highlight comments that are written by the author, so that they stand out amongst regular user comments. This image should give you an idea of what I mean.
CSS, Development, Tutorial, Web Saturday, June 13, 2009 at 9:23AM I figured I'd just take a minute to update everyone on what's been going on with this site as well as my current projects.
Saturday, May 2, 2009 at 9:53AM ; "FAIL!")
Wow, I never would have thought that I would write a title like THAT on this site. But low and behold, I did experience a brief Google FAIL.
I was checking my Gmail from within my iGoogle page, and for some reason the search bar/header appeared both at the top and where my inbox should have been. At first, I thought maybe this was a weird refresh problem, but both search boxes were fully-functional. Weird. I'm not sure what happened, but a simple refresh fixed it - end of fail.
Note: In case you're wondering, I'm using the PHP Coder iGoogle theme.
Monday, April 20, 2009 at 7:14PM I have to confess something. In my last post, I talked a lot about good coding practices. Well, it seems I have a tendency to break one of my own rules. I was looking through some of my Memories of Hyrule code and I realized that I have a tendency to leave the default cases, in my switch statements, blank.
C++, Code, Memories of Hyrule, Programming Saturday, April 11, 2009 at 8:09AM 
There exists programmers who do not love what they do... I know, I can't believe it either.
To many, software development is just an everyday 9-5 job. But to others (such as myself), programming is practically a way of life! But I suppose not everyone can have the same love for code that I do. Not everyone can really admire the elegance of a well-formed recursive function. Not everyone can read a piece of code and appreciate it in the same way that others might appreciate a song, film, or book. But the problem is not that there are people who don't love software. The problem is that there are people who don't love software despite the fact that they CHOSE a career in which they write it every day.
But how do I know? How do I know that the people writing software don't love it the same way that I do? How do I know that people chose to go all the way through school in order to start a career in a field that they don't love?
I know because I read their code.
Programming Tuesday, March 24, 2009 at 8:20PM I've been thinking about this for a while and I've decided that I am going to start a software company. Unfortunately, that's all I have to say about it at the moment. I'm sure it's still at least a few years away, but it's going to happen.
In the meantime, maybe I should start getting some projects finished.
Saturday, March 14, 2009 at 2:02PM
I just came across this awesome video, and thought I'd share it.
Richard Buckland, a UNSW professor, discusses problem solving, craftsmanship, and what it means to be a good programmer. If you enjoy this video, you can watch his entire COMP-1971 course here.
Programming, Video Saturday, March 7, 2009 at 3:26PM A guy at work showed this to me. Now I don't know who developed the website for Dick's Sporting Goods, but apparently they've worked with plenty of other retailers as well. This is made apparent by the fact that whoever developed the site, is using the same database to store product information for all of their clients! How do I know this? I know this because you can search for plenty of non-sporting goods right on Dick's website! Try this search for televisions to see what I mean.
Next time I need to buy some home electronics, I'm going to do it through Dick's website. It's bound to confuse someone in the sales department.
