User Interface Design – Simplicity
Being a software engineer I can empathize with this comic. I feel your pain! This webcomic is brought to you by Eric Burke @ StuffThatHappens.com
Jonathan Franzone
How Can I Tell If My Bash Script Is Already Running? – Part 2
In my first posting on this topic I outlined a manual method by which you could code Bash scripts to check to see whether or not an instance of the script was already running. This is very useful in scripts that might cause adverse affects if more than one instance runs at the same time. …
Facebook IM? Instant Messaging In Your Social Network
According to TechCrunch, Facebook will soon be opening the doors on a new IM service built right into their their social networking platform. It is slated to use the Jabber open source platform, which should make it easy to add the new service into many existing IM chat clients. Of course this could spell disaster …
Friday Song Of The Day – Nothing Compares 2 U
Here’s the big 90s hit from ole baldy herself (no… not Britney), Sinéad O’Connor, Nothing Compares 2 U from her album I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got (1990). It’s been seven hours and fifteen days Since you took your love away I go out every night and sleep all day Since you took …
Vim Tips – Where The Heck Am I?
I just wanted to post a few quick tips on using the Vim (vi iMproved) text editor. Whenever you are editing a large text file in vi you may want to know where you are? What line am I on? Well, it’s actually quite easy. Just type CTRL-g and look at the bottom/status line of …
So How Big IS A Kilobyte?
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Conditional Statements And Comparison Order – Part 2
In the original posting, Conditional Statements And Comparison Order, I brought up a coding style used by some software engineers that struck me as odd. The practice of placing a constant value first in a conditional comparison. For example: if(“Some String” == aVariable) { // Do some stuff } … Listing 1 I never liked …
Friday Song Of The Day – Time
Do you ever feel like your just lost in time… flowing like a river… to the sea? Seems a bit depressing. Anyway, no reason for this weeks song other than the fact that I like it. This is Time by The Alan Parsons Project as seen on their album, The Turn of a Friendly Card. …
Firefox 3 T-Shirt Design Contest
Do you have mad ninja designing skillz? Do you love the Firefox web browser (who doesn’t)? Well, now is your chance to win some cool cash and prizes plus worldwide recognition! The Mozilla Store is hosting a T-Shirt Design Contest for the upcoming release of the highly anticipated Firefox 3 browser. If chosen, your design …
You Can’t Always Get What You Want
… but if you try sometime you just might find, you get what you need. I love the lyrics to this Rolling Stones classic – You Can’t Always Get What You Want. This song appears on several of their albums the latest of which is the Forty Licks CD. I saw her today at the …