Posts under ‘programming’

There is far too much bullshit on the Internet.
Too many of you assholes see something on the internet and think, "HEY! I can do that too! I'm gonna be fucking rich!".
No, you can't. And no, you're not.
Just give up now before you litter my precious Internet with your crap. And before you start [...]

I'm not sure if this is specific to the Ubuntu Live based installs, or if this would apply to any Ubuntu installation. However, attempting to install sun-java6-jre (or sun-java5-jre) has left me with a continuous string of errors until I did this…
ln -s / /cow
It seems as though one of the installation scripts has this [...]

I spent 30 minutes or so sharpening my Ruby skills to write a small script to fix my backup issues. The result, while not very elegant thanks to my rusty skills, reminded me of how much I really enjoy writing in Ruby. Enough to brush the dust off my propeller hat and give the latest [...]

My Photoblog is almost finished. It will be called "Arranging Light".
If you look at the code, "Wordpress":http://wordpress.org/ is really just a bunch of pieces of really bad, procedural, brute-force style coding tied together with a thin thread that they call an API and wrapped in enough global variables to leave even the most experienced coders [...]

In this article, I discuss the pros and cons of three different options for developing my own online gallery and, in the end, draw my own conclusion about which route to take, despite the fact that it is the route that I will enjoy the least.