Archive for March, 2007

Simple Security: A platoon of dolphins and sea lions

Okay, so let’s review: the Navy has a whole pile of nuclear weapons on the Hood Canal, and their security solution is focused on a platoon of dolphins and sea lions? Dolphins with Frickin Laser Beams

Memories of my hometown.

Ah, memories of my hometown!

Repeat DUI offender arrested first as 17-year-old and — at midnight — booked and jailed as 18-year-old By The Associated Press MONTESANO, Grays Harbor County — An Aberdeen teen was arrested twice in one day on drunken driving charges — once as a […]

Who’s going to make the extra tutorials and better docs?

Answer: your user community. User Community and ROI

Wow. <– really, it’s not just a vista ad.

Pair Programming

You haven’t lived until you’ve experienced a successful pair programming session. Once you have, you’ll probably feel that programming on your own is incredibly unproductive. Oh… and it’s also great for improving your communication skills; something us programmer/coder/developer types often lack.

Pair Programming is the process where two developers work together on […]

Java Thread safety again… this time Regexes?

Over at mult.ifario.us there was a Java brain teaser…

Suppose that you have a Java web application where regular expressions are used deep down in the implementation to do some work, but you observe that the an array index exception is occurring sporadically where the regular expressions are being used. What’s […]

The Underlying Problems of TDD in the .Net World

Jeremy Miller has a great post called The Underlying Problems of TDD in the .Net World that should have been called The Underlying Problems of TDD in the (ASP).Net World. Oh that page event cycle… I don’t think I know many people that actually understand the page event cycle and I know […]

Code duplication: Methods made out of ticky tacky.

I was reading Ted Carnahan on ticky tacky and it reminded me of code duplication. Ever start feeling like you’re in a pre-fab sub-division when you’re looking at your code? You might just have some code duplication to take care of.

The phrase ticky tacky was coined by Malvina Reynolds in the […]

Cingular BlackJack extended battery rebate: Just ask at the store?

I signed up for the rebate online but recently was in the Cingular store and just said, “Hey, I have a BlackJack and I heard there is an extended battery rebate…” The clerk just said, “One sec.” Grabbed the extended battery, scanned it and said “There you go!”. No questions asked. It was near closing […]

Hidden in plain sight! The world of faux-item-safes.

They will never find it!

Ninja’s never suspect the lettuce.

Never! EVAR!!! Don’t waste your money at Amazon buying a “diversion safe”? Instructables has instructions that allow you to make your own diversion safe.

Or you can go buy one from Amazon (cue the shameless amazon associates links)

Microsoft Vista Speech Recognition Tested - Perl Scripting

Here are a few choice quotes:

“Delete open bracket open brace less than.” delete lower case open open helpful select all delete OPEN! correct o correct open one ok delete correct o open parenthesis capital i capital info delete capital info info make capital delete make capital correct […]