My first real experience with web development was based on PHP. I opted to learn it over Perl because it was more popular at the time and its syntax is very similar to C. One of the things I liked most about PHP was the excellent manual on the official website. The tutorial at the [...]
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CacheViewer Continued, A History And Status Update
A word of warning: this situation has me very upset. There will be strong language in this post. As you may, or may not, know, I maintain a Firefox add-on named CacheViewer Continued. I did not originally author this add-on; it was originally developed by someone named “benki” as “CacheViewer.” This add-on was extremely helpful [...]
JavaScript Via Java On The Back Of A Rhino
I have been formulating a project with a couple of at odds requirements: It must interface with an Oracle database It should be easily extensible via a language others wouldn’t mind Requirement #2 leads me to JavaScript, it being the most common programming language available. So, I could do this project as a Node.js based [...]
RE: The Pew Pew Manifesto
Ben Simpson made a post to Twitter a few days ago about an article that advocates avoiding writing applications directly in JavaScript. I reponded that the article is worthless, and Mr. Simpson wanted to know which points, specificially, I think are “hogwash.” There a few reponses in the article’s comments section that highlight my simple [...]
WinLN – A Windows Symbolic Link Manager
Prices on SSDs have been dropping fast lately. I’ve been wanting one for my gaming computer for some time, and one of the recent deals was very acceptible to me. Which is to say, I just added a new 250GB SSD to my gaming computer. Since I could fill up 250GB with all of my [...]
