Author Archives: James

Aside: CPW featured in WordPress Top Plugins

Category Posts Widget is featured in the new book titled WordPress Top Plugins by Brandon Corbin.

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Aside: More Ads Than Content

You ever notice how there are more ads than there is content in the print version of Wired? I’m not even exaggerating. It’s ridiculous.

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Aside: Scala Tutorial

Just worked my way through the Scala Tutorial (PDF). It’s an interesting language so far. It mixes my favorite parts of functional and object oriented languages in an elegant way. I’ll have to write something in it to see if … Continue reading

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Aside: What I Learned Today

Character encoding is a bitch and internationalization is hard. I need to educate myself on how this stuff works. Yes, I have read Joel Spolsky’s rant on Unicode before, but it doesn’t get you very far in terms of actually … Continue reading

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Aside: Mongrel2

I’ve been really enjoying Zed Shaw’s posts on Mongrel2. It’s really interesting to read about how an experienced programmer designs and codes a complex piece of software. Definitely going to peruse the source when I get the chance.

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Link: Knuth’s Earthshaking Announcement

Knuth announces iTex. Here’s one person’s notes on the conference. I can’t decide if this is for real or if he’s laughing himself to sleep right now… Was kind of hoping he proved P=NP or something to that effect.

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Link: New Deathly Hallows Trailer

A new Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows trailer was released today. I can’t wait for November!

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