Tag: programming
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Parsing XML as JSON
This morning, I got an instant message from a programmer who's getting deeply into their Ajax recently. The conversation went something like this (I paraphrase and dramatise at least a little):
Morning! I need to manipulate a JSON feed so that [this JSON parser] will recognise it.
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The Modern Programmer's Dictionary
In the field of software development, there's always something new to learn. Whether it's a new language, framework, API or methodology, your need to study is never through - even if you're a FORTRAN developer. But one of the more esoteric areas of your education will come in the form of the language programmers use, …
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Sleepless? Priceless!
Time for this iteration of a software project: 4 months
Time left after the client changed their mind about the "must have" requirements: 2 months
Amount of sleep within the last 40+ hours: 4 hours
Number of JOIN clauses in an eleventh-hour SQL statement that suddenly fixes everything: 12 (LEFTies, RIGHTies, … -
Writing A Calendar App In Rails Vs. PHP
Some time ago, I wrote a web-based calendar application in PHP, one of my favourite programming languages. This tool would produce a HTML tabular calendar for a four week period, Monday to Sunday, in which the current date (or a user-specified date) fell in the second week (so you're looking at this week, last week, …
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Geeky Humour - The Concatenator
String c = a.concat(b); has never been so violent. -
Our Web Developer’s “Line Of The Day”
Yet again my concern for the value of an Internet Computer Science degree from UWA is raised, as a dippy co-worker with two years of such a degree behind her asks me for help:
"Dan," she begins, "How do I make a table in PHP?"
For those of you that don't know quite as much about web … -
PHP 5 RC1
Terribly geeky I know, but I find it awfully exciting: PHP 5 Release Candidate 1 was released today. PHP 5 can now be considered feature-complete, and mostly stable. If only the program I'm writing with it could be considered the same...
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Amusing Line From The Python Manual
Attempts to pickle unpicklable objects will raise the PicklingError exception.
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Alone, And With…
People who are in on the Secret Of The Jukebox will be delighted to hear that I've had a good long hack at it tonight (hence it being 4:30am) and I've managed to get heaps done and ready for Paul to break test, including but not limited to the new "Alone, And With..." engine, which …
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I Wanna Wake Up Where You Are
Watching a Goo Goo Dolls concert on VideoCD.
They're really quite remarkably good. I suppose you can't help but respect the artistry that goes into making a song for which you need to re-tune your guitar such that five strings are tuned to the same note. I mean, can you see the conversation now? "Hey, Robby: … -
Some Days You’re The Statue; Some Days You’re The Pigeon
I'm at the office. It's almost 5pm. So far today I've achieved what should be estimated as approximately 7 days work. Some days the code just flows. I like being me.
On the other hand, it may be that I've just written the wrong 7 days worth of code - as in; the 7 days worth … -
Bovini: A Week Well-Spent
It's been a busy week. I've spent a lot of my time at the office, trying to get the replication model for Bovini working - causing much stress as it failed time and time again. For those of you without a grounding in computer science theory, replication is the art of making data be identical …
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Edge of darkness
This repost was published in hindsight, on 22 March 2019.
Kit wrote:
A day of energy and focus. Paul and I hacking through stuff, fixing, tweaking, making work, prodding, pushing.
Its a slick operation. Paul and I discuss bugs and problems, mark them up on a whiteboard on the wall (installed for the purpose) and clear off … -
Progress!
Working late. I've got Club 977 (best 80's cheese on the 'net!) playing as loud as this computer goes, slamming out code at a rate more productive than I've been all week. Finally got past a bug that'd been troubling me for days. Phew! Just in time for a meeting tomorrow!
I've been getting a lot … -
AbNib
I'm almost ready to launch AbNib (main site may be down during development, but try the temporary mirror), a site dedicated to the weblogs of Aberites: people who live in or love Aberystwyth.
There are some funky new and cool features to come. But this is a weblog-community in the making.
Rock on.