Monthly Archives: June 2010

Fancy command-line alarm for Mac OS X

Tweet I have a Calc exam in the morning. Instead of studying for it, I decided to program a command-line alarm for myself so I don’t sleep through the exam. It doesn’t help that my phone is MIA and I’ve … Continue reading

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Twitter updates on 2010-06-25

Tweet I have posted a new comic, it is about existentialist elephants http://www.acertainelephant.com/ace-97.html # "It was probably just an honest mistake, but that's unlike Apple." Ugh. # Denmark: Not Doing So Well #worldcup # Thankfully, the Slashdot summary about IceCube … Continue reading

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A Certain Elephant #97

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Twitter updates on 2010-06-15

Tweet Now that futures trading for movies is legal, does that mean movie pundits are now financial experts? fffffuuuuuuuu # Futures trading for new Hollywood films now legal. What? http://3crg.sl.pt # Smoking some pipe tobacco (Big Dipper from Uhle's) and … Continue reading

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MVC or just pretending?

Tweet I used to think I hated MVC. I realized in the past few months that MVC is great, but not many programmers actually adhere to it in the PHP world. A lot of PHP frameworks pay lip service to … Continue reading

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Twitter updates on 2010-06-14

Tweet Okay, we have the iPhone and iPad now… we need another Apple rumor to keep ourselves occupied. # Explaining PHP-Frame to @kanatzidisg, good times and paradigm shifts are bound to ensue # The physicist and Oingo-Boingo fanboy extraordinaire, @kanatzidisg, … Continue reading

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Twitter updates on 2010-06-13

Tweet Image hosting services with no bandwidth limits, okay with hotlinking: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/free-image-hosting-services/ # Powered by Twitter Tools

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Twitter updates on 2010-06-12

Tweet "as a rule, regulation is acquired by the industry and is designed and operated primarily for its benefit." http://n.pr/bsP13Z # For me, this also means that the model should not manipulate the database at all; at most, it should … Continue reading

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Twitter updates on 2010-06-11

Tweet WordPress hosted blogs would benefit from a PHP-less template system – more customizable for users without worrying about arbitrary code. # I was told by a professor a few months ago that compilers would be dead, were it not … Continue reading

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Twitter updates on 2010-06-10

Tweet I'm reading up on HTML5 to prepare for The Future. The "ping" attribute is interesting, here's a good discussion: http://bit.ly/aTXLXZ # Had fun on the radio (WSUM) last night. Yesterday was a freak-carnival and dubstep day. Today, I'm going … Continue reading

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