I came across a wonderful blog post entitled “Whatever happened to programming”, with a second part here.
I think it tackles a very important question, specifically discussing how a lot of the work nowadays is spent putting libraries together and making them work, which doesn’t make the whole programming experience very fun and it also [...]
This post will be a bit of speculative philosophical techy meditation, but bear with me please.
There are all sorts of problems with getting a domain nowadays. If someone is not cyber-squatting it, it might just be taken already (for a legit reason) and even if it all works well, it still costs you money. [...]
A few weeks back I finally decided to do something with an old computer that was just sitting around, so I put Ubuntu on it and made myself a fileserver. Next step was making all the stuff on the file server visible to the 360 so I could play music and video directly on it [...]
Issue:
Recently I ran into a rather weird problem. I needed certain operations to take place when my program finished running, irrelevant of the manner in which that happened (normal exit, error, crash etc.) Doing this in Java seemed to be a lot more complicated than what I was expecting.
finalize():
There is a method in java [...]
Whenever some website emails me MY OWN PASSWORD in plaintext, I feel like pulling my hair out.
1. You should not be storing passwords in plaintext!!! NOT! EVER! There is no excuse for that, no excuse, I don’t care how small and insignificant your website is, that is unacceptable, simply unacceptable!
2. You should never email such [...]