Code and Whatnot

After my 6 weeks of free company car ran out here in Los Angeles, I opted not to buy a car. Instead, I saved up the cash to spend 10 days in Europe. I got back last Monday. Here are some pictures.
So you might want to know how it is, living in […]

Martin Fowler recently posted OneLanguage, and article exploring the costs and benefits of using multiple programming languages in a project. He also hints at what my dad has also been preaching: Ruby, and languages like it, are as significant an advance beyond Java as Java was beyond C++.

There were mistakes in an example I found on Google Code Search, so I fixed:

<script type="text/javascript">
function stopRKey(e) {
//use ‘event’ in IE, and the passed ‘e’ everywhere else
var e = (e) ? e : ((event) ? event : null);
//target in most browsers, srcElement in IE
var node = (e.target) ? e.target : ((e.srcElement) ? e.srcElement : null);
if […]

As of last week I was getting pretty tired of my laptop’s inability to suspend to RAM in Ubuntu Feisty 7.04. The ati driver that comes with Ubuntu didn’t work at all on my machine, and the fglrx driver package (the non-free driver from ATI), while it did work, caused the machine to freeze […]

I tested Drupal and Joomla! to see how easily I could set up a CMS that had basic site & content control, image galleries, video content, blogs, and a calendar of events.
The winner: Drupal
The installation was quite painless. Finding and installing modules was also a breeze. I haven’t yet had time to screw […]