September 2004 – Your Catchphrase Here

Doughnuts! I like Doughnuts!

I’ve been a software developer for quite some time, and at my last job, I was indoctrinated into the practice of buying doughnuts for the development team if one of the developers “broke the build”. For those who don’t know what that means, let me tell you. Any decent software project has a central repositoryContinue reading “Doughnuts! I like Doughnuts!”

Your Javascript Sucks

First of all, you can’t win using Javascript in a browser. There’s always some stupid bug, either in the browser or in the Javascript itself, or in the site which uses it, or whatever, which prevents your Javascript from working properly. There, I said it: Your Javascript will break. Given that cosmic truth, why doContinue reading “Your Javascript Sucks”

It’s Good to be Smart

I recently purchased a wireless ethernet USB adapter from D-Link – the DWL-122 to be exact. It turns out that the item was defective, and I called customer support to get an RMA number to return the adapter. I went through all the hoops that I despise, even though I know that the customer supportContinue reading “It’s Good to be Smart”