As I write this, I’m in a 737 flying over the Rocky mountains on my way home from a long week in Denver, Colorado. When you think about all the infrastructure that is in place to facilitate a flight from one US city to another it boggles the mind. Not just software and [...]
I just installed the new wordpress app for Android phones. Now I can blog from anywhere! Of course writing things on a tiny phone screen is kind of funny. But I guess it’s nice for starting a draft when an idea strikes you, wherever you may be.
I think I’ll try this [...]
From the wikipedia article, Luddite:
The Luddites were a social movement of British textile artisans in the early nineteenth century who protested—often by destroying mechanised looms—against the changes produced by the Industrial Revolution, which they felt were leaving them without work and changing their entire way of life.
As a proponent of software efficiency measures at home [...]
Today I’ve decided to go over functions, (also known as “methods” or “subroutines”) the building blocks of modular code; and show why it’s a good idea to use them in your programming.
When I first started writing web applications I didn’t really understand what a function was and how it worked, so I just avoided them. [...]
