Monthly Archives: August 2003

A comment I found in a program I was debugging tonight: //add the other crap here Very descriptive, Rhine. Note to self: you are now self-obfuscating.

That squishing sound you hear is the sound of bugs in Frequency being squished. I’m almost ready for the 1.2 release. The big job left is real post editing, not the fake stuff I did in 1.1. I’ve already added … Continue reading →

Iraqis’ 10 tips to beat blackout heat: Without power — and hence without air conditioning — Iraqis have taken to climbing up stairs in the hot nights. Some install metal bed frames on rooftops, while others simply stretch out on … Continue reading →

RBGarage is back up! Woohoo!

I suppose I need a haircut, although there’s no longer much hair to speak of. Last night, at dinner, Grace looked at me and said, “Daddy, you have baby hair.” I thought she meant that all the hairs on my … Continue reading →

This is the time of year when those of us in educational technology start to feel like the Dunkin’ Donuts guy: “Time to clone the iBooks…” We well over 200 laptop computers in our offices right now. We need to … Continue reading →

It’s an eye-opening experience to walk into my four-year-old daughter’s bedroom to find her sitting at her big yellow plastic desk with her head in her hands, lamenting the amount of work she has to do. “What’s wrong?” I ask, … Continue reading →

From LAM Systems. Running great so far. Yet, whenever I see Microsoft’s stupid “bliss” wallpaper, I expect the computer’s shutdown sound to be “Time for Teletubby Bye-Bye!”

I was looking for a bug-tracking application the other night (yes, I write that many bugs into my programs that I need another program to keep them straight) andfound phpBugTracker. Very slick, PHP-based, and even works with PostgreSQL, which automatically … Continue reading →

This looks very interesting. How to Write Unmaintainable Code: Make sure that every method does a little bit more (or less) than its name suggests. As a simple example, a method named isValid(x) should as a side effect convert x … Continue reading →