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A beauty of things imperfect, impermanent and incomplete 7 Nov 2010 | 08:54 am
I’ve been reading a bit about a certain kind of japanese philosophy called “wabi-sabi”, which is a japanese world-view and aesthetic. The list, which contrasts wabi-sabiwith modernism, is from Koren’s...
Javascript Testing 2 Sep 2010 | 02:13 am
I had a new experience (for me anyway), someone approached me with offer of reviewing a new Javascript book that Packt recently published called “Javascript Testing“. I guess this is mainly a way of ...
Vim stuff 28 Aug 2009 | 10:38 am
Vim is a nice editor, but I never liked the way it handles files. Thankfully I recently found a great script, which adds great quick browsing capabilities to Vim, called lusty-explorer.vim. Since 7, V...
Javascript ghost debugging 22 Jul 2009 | 12:46 pm
Recently, I tried to use jQuery, as a way of dynamically loading all the scripts that a certain page requires. Instead of utilizing script tags in the header section, using a simple $.getScript("scrip...
Zealotry versus advocacy 6 Jun 2009 | 07:24 am
Recently, I was compelled by a friend to download GNU Privacy Guard, GPG in short, in order to do things “properly”, when we were gonna exchange some possibly sensitive data. Now, GPG is a open-source...
Non-english domain naming issues in programming 31 Mar 2009 | 04:55 am
This is a problem I’ve been thinking a good deal about lately, without really coming to any conclusion, maybe because there is no right way. The issue can be summed up fairly easily, but it does betra...
SQL split function 9 Mar 2009 | 07:08 pm
Every time I need to work with SQL, it never ceases to amaze. The language is simply such an abortion in terms of development enviroments and simple programmer usability. Naturally, alot of this stems...
New host! 18 Feb 2009 | 11:53 pm
My site has been down for quite some time, while I both arranged some new hosting, and tried to save the contents of the old site. I want to once more, thank my buddy and old coworker, Lasse, for host...
C# Generics and anonymous methods 15 Nov 2008 | 09:11 am
I’ve never been much of a C# maven or anything, but I’ve really fallen in love with this construct in the language. One thing which I guess almost anyone does alot of is building a string, from a list...
The utterly retarded IE PNG implementation (and pngstrip) 13 Aug 2008 | 07:40 am
pngstrip (32bit, Windows Executable at 59 kb) is a small program I’ve written to strip out the various kinds of gamma and chromacity information from PNG files. It’s written in standard ANSI C, so sho...
