Image via Wikipedia Apparently, I’ve gotten the beta for Twitter’s new Retweet feature, so I thought I’d use this moment to rant a little bit about the Twitter Retweet API. The Retweet API is actually a set of five API functions, and, as per Twitter’s horrible documentation habit, they’re spread across one namespace (“statuses”) but […]
Image via Wikipedia (Full disclaimer: I work at Automattic and am a speaker at PHP conferences.) A couple days ago, Gina Trapani posted an interesting article on learning to program. This reminds me that some people may take the wrong points away in my last article on the subject, the priority shouldn’t be what language […]
“Five million, bitches” —my new reply every time someone mentions Ruby A friend of mine is learning to program, and how to learn a programming language came up. There is a lot of people who are non-programmers or have taken programming classes and not yet learned to program. When I was a kid, those languages […]
I haven’t shot the Leica in a long, long while. The main reason is both the M-mount lenses I have were busted and I have been too lazy to get them repaired. But actually, the larger reason is that I haven’t been shooting much of anything in over a year. The introduction of the Olympus […]
Not cool. I finally got around to calling Amazon about this. They claim it’s “impact damage not a manufacturing defect” so I have to pay $200 to replace it. “Amazon trains us, we’ve seen a lot of reports of just this sort of thing, and they say when we see diagonal damage, this is caused […]
I can’t find the conference speaker badges so this will have to do. The fact that it feeds my ego doesn’t hurt either! Paul wrote something nice about me. In fact, it’s so very nice, that I can (almost) forgive him for listing me sixth. 😉 Reading his description reminds me how grateful I am […]
Apparently one commenter found my April Fools article “ham-handed.” ham-hand⋅ed clumsy, inept, or heavy-handed: a ham-handed approach to dealing with people that hurts a lot of feelings. I’m sorry that some people didn’t realize that an article was meant to show off someone else’s April Fool’s prank. I guess the snippets of code showing the […]
My friend Robb just IM’d me to tell me he’s released a new PHP framework. Get Phails!
Reading a friend’s blog via vanity feed, I thought… Whee! Me! I don’t know how many times I’ve successfully argued a woman into dating me. Let me think about it… I guess I’ll have to go with “None.” I don’t know why I have bad luck. I’m very intelligent, I’m great in bed, I make […]
“We’ve all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.” —unknown Your humble author at work writing this article. I love to quote people quoting me. I do this by creating a vanity feed— […]