All blog posts from January 2012

Browser Usage Stats

Posted January 27, 2012

In the past, whenever I've made the case for using a browser other than Internet Explorer, I often use browser market share to illustrate the steady decline of Internet Explorer - typically using sites like W3Schools and such. Admittedly, these should always be taken with a grain of salt, but the re…

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Posted in Science & Tech
Tagged as internet explorer, market share, firefox, chrome, and safari

Notice to Frat-Boy Business Men RE: Your IT

Posted January 25, 2012

This is just a rant from me to "businessmen" who are stuck in the whole "frat-boy" mentality.

When dealing with your IT guys, there are a few things you need to be aware of:

  • we run your business. You may think you're in control, but we have the power to cripple your business with a few clicks of a…

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Posted in Programming
Tagged as campus, ian, macdonald, fiveht, and business

Get Lost!!

Posted January 5, 2012

Ever noticed how when you intensely dislike someone (shall we use hate?) and you've made this perfectly clear on more than one occasion, these people keep stalking you? Why do people do that?

When I tell someone "burn in hell", that's me not-very-politely telling you to get out of my life.

Don't com…

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Posted in General
Tagged as ken, mitz, crause, gavin, vickery, jessica, thompson, ryan, shawn, and adrian

XML Prolog in PHP

Posted January 5, 2012

Okay, I get it. For some PHP programmers, the notion of the PHP short-code being the same as the open and close of the XML prolog is enough to throw you into a foaming rage.

However - of all the "solutions" I've seen, this has to be the worst:

<?php echo ("<"); ?>?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"…

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Posted in Programming
Tagged as php, xml, prolog, and shortcode

#1 Reason (To Me) Why REST Web Services Suck

Posted January 2, 2012

Every time I have to work with REST-based webservices, I want to pull my teeth.

My #1 problem is that they typically use HTTP status codes to report errors/failures. The problem with this is that there is literally no details given as to WHAT failed.

Take Twitter as an example - if you make a server…

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Posted in Programming
Tagged as web and service
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