A weaker man might be moved to re-examine his faith, if in nothing else, at least in the law of probability. — Rosencrantz from Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead A colleague at work emailed this to me today: Check out how well VB.Net’s Random Number Generator works: I am relieved to say that [...]
I recently discovered the limitations of svn:ignore. Having been spoiled by the ignore file in mercurial, I wasn’t expecting the hardships subversion had in store for me. And as I quickly learned from google, I’m not the first to lament its shortcomings. See, for instance, svn:ignore propset. The most frustrating thing is the lack of [...]
IE6 is one of the banes of my existence. We still have a user-base for it at the office. A small one, but I, my team, my boss, and some his bosses are still part of it. And since I have to code for IE6 at work, I keep IE6 installed at home. (The fact [...]
In this category, I plan to look at topics related to security, reliability, and to a lesser extent efficiency as it relates to software development and, occasionally, life in general.
Typography has been an interest of mine since I saw my friend Joshua Gaylord’s first laser-printed essay in the 9th or 10th grade. Wikipedia, as with so many things, has been a fount of information on typography and fonts. So much so indeed that the subject has lost a bit of its enchantment me. At [...]