I’ve taken the leap into learning some of the more obscure programming languages out there. OCaml, Haskell, Scheme, and Lisp. The point is not to use these for work or in production systems, but simply to make my head hurt. Using different languages gives you different ways to say things. Sometimes the new ways are [...]
Archive for August, 2006
My Ultimate Laptop
So there was some news announced on monday that will change the way that I work. My current preferred setup is to work on two laptops. My primary is a T42 thinkpad with linux installed. In addition to all of the normal development software, I run VMware with half a dozen Windows virtual machines. Different [...]
Problems with Feedburner
With my personal search engine Cloudgrove, I’ve come across an interesting problem with FeedBurner. There are quite a few major sites that use FeedBurner to manage their RSS feeds, but every so often they will change the URL for the posts in the feed, usually by adding a “.” to the end. The problem with [...]
A little tidbit about Firefox
While working on some image uploading code for the YouService webtop today I came across an interesting tidbit.