Pretty Sneaky, ISS
I was just out doing some quick errands, when I happened to look up in the sky and saw this interesting bright light whizzing almost overhead in the evening sky. It was around 6:30 this evening, and...
View ArticleArtistic Standards for Coding? Is This Possible?
In software development, they say there’s no single correct method to get something done. I firmly believe that, and live to prove that statement every single day with every piece of code I write. But...
View ArticleWeird Site Requests
I haven’t been freelancing all that long, so maybe this is a common scenario. I recently bid on (and won) a contract to translate a website from JSP to PHP. No design or functionality changes are...
View ArticleNever Thought of It This Way…
I got this email from a friend north of Portland, and it really made some sense to me. She sent this to the author of an online magazine article, then forwarded it to me. While reading the article, I...
View ArticleOoohh, pretty pictures
I’ve been working on the wireframe for a site that I’m doing the code for. That’s a little unusual for me in that I’m a subcontractor and that sort of thing is generally provided by the client. I used...
View ArticleName This Blog
I’ve decided to rename the blog. I’ll keep the domain name because maybe someday I’ll aspire to be a CTO again, but for now… now I need something different. Got any ideas? I could be really boring and...
View ArticleThe Bad Man Stole Our Fun
I was accosted, hit by a truck, and watched as my dog was chased down by a snowmobile - all by the same person. It was a pretty rough day. Man my arm hurts. Here in South Portland, we have this...
View ArticleIT People Always Forget Something…
…Non-IT people! Breakfast reading is fun reading, and today I’m going to share what today’s morning meal had to offer literature-wise. I was just reading Scott Bradner’s recent column in Network World,...
View ArticleHoly Busy Bees, Batman
Oh man, I’ve been soooo busy! I have this one site I’ve been working on, and now am about to pass the deadline with the site only about 90% complete. I’m not worried about it so much because there...
View ArticleMainstream Vindication
Hand-coding stuff really IS more reliable and efficient. I get so bothered when I work on sites that were built using Dreamweaver because I find that the code is difficult to read, is not compatible...
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