Tag Archives: programming

Beautiful Code

Michael McCracken: “Once you get a piece of code to the point where you believe it works - it’s passing its tests - go back over it and edit it. That is, go back and edit it for clarity, flow, and style. Just as if it were an essay.“ This is something I just don’t hear [...]

Smarty is on my evil list

Although I have my grousing about PHP in general, I have to say that it makes much better template language as-is before pulling something like Smarty into the mix. At this point, I consider Smarty to be evil—though I’m willing to admit that I haven’t grokked it fully yet. And this is coming [...]

Yahoo for stalking iPods in the hands of couriers

If the new Yahoo! Maps were really cool, they’d’ve already done a mashup with DHL to let me obsessively stalk the courier in whose truck my returning iPod repair currently rests. Come on, get with the program! When we’ve got GPS watches, “Status: With delivery courier / Location: (blank)” is no way to [...]

D.I.Y. checkout lane

This might be a revealing admission: Listening to the TWiT podcast, and heard a bit where they were grousing about self-serve checkout lanes at stores. Leo Laporte went so far as to say he wants a human cashier who says hello, and a bagger at the end of the lane. Personally? I like [...]