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Commentary on: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/the-future-of-the-internet-its-in-the-app/49512?tag=nl.e539 The Forrester CEO cited in this article strikes me as remarkably naïve (or maybe badly misquoted). I’m not downplaying the importance of apps, but 90% of the popular apps on the market are popular because they exchange … Continue reading →

HTTPS is a way of providing security and privacy for your communication with web sites. You should expect it from sites that deal with your money, such as your bank, or Amazon.com, but you might not realize how important it … Continue reading →

In the wake of the recent kernel exploits I determined I didn’t really need 32-bit support on most of my 64-bit machines. The vulnerabilities in question depend upon 32-bit support, so dropping that support resolves the issue without me having … Continue reading →

pre { overflow-x: auto; } code { white-space: nowrap; } Steve and I were asked to implement doubleclick.net for some site by “oh you just drop some code in the page and it works great OK?” No. We never do … Continue reading →

To make working with Subversion easier, I’ve written a shell function that automatically prunes “.svn” and anything found in the svn property “svn:ignore” when using find. Continue reading →

Neither Sony nor Hulu are Internet Service Providers, so you might wonder how they can be involved in the Net Neutrality dispute. Let me explain how they relate. I purchased Hulu Plus today, with the understanding that a Hulu Plus … Continue reading →

I’ve been working on a library of sorting functions implemented in Bash. Mostly I’ve been using the algorithms from “Mastering Algorithms in Perl” by Jon Orwant, Jarkko Hietaniemi, and John Macdonald.

Just a quick note to show off a weird discovery I made. Check this CSS-only page out in Firefox. [Update: this was true with the latest stable Firefox at the time of posting. It doesn’t seem to be true with … Continue reading →

I wanted to see if it’s possible to use xslt to sort an xml document in an order specified by another document. It is, but I’m not satisfied with my solution yet. The problem is it takes too many iterations … Continue reading →