May 27, 2003
The day for the 2003 Becel Ride for Heart draws near, and I just thought that I’d take this opportunity to request that you sponsor me for the ride if you haven’t already done so. I liken donating to … Read more
May 20, 2003
One of my biggest beefs with working with HTML and CSS was that the separation of content and style had not gone far enough. One still had to consider the structure of the document in terms of element ordering. For instance, when writing a white-paper one would have to decide whether to place the table … Read more
May 15, 2003
After a long haitus, Ed is back with another selection of rare groove tunes:
Space Lady – Lonnie Liston Smith The Master Rocker – Bernard Wright Double Dutch Bus – Franke Smith Fat Mama – Herbie Hancock Sing Sing – Gaz The Breakdown – Rufus Thomas Different Strokes – Syl Johnson North, East, South, West … Read more
May 14, 2003
As the Tomcat user mailing list has not been much help in solving two annoying Tomcat issues, I hereby invoke the Lazy Web!
The first issue involves Tomcat blocking on a call to HttpServletRequest.getSession(). This seems to only occur when I … Read more
May 6, 2003
As far as Google searches go, I thought this weblog had seen it all: from searches for various pornography involving monkeys, to … well, more searches for obscure pornography. This latest one, however, tops them all, not necessarily for the content of the search phrase but more for the frequency of hits and the fact … Read more
Dave Rupert has a great JQuery plugin which can style individual letters, words, and kerning. Fantastic work!
It’s only been very recently where I’ve been able to say that I like beer. Strangely, I didn’t touch the stuff all through university and even years afterwards. While I mostly stick to IPAs, stouts, porters and Belgian ales, I’ll be consulting this chart of beer families for further inspiration.
I feel like there’s much functionality in Vim that I don’t leverage to speed up editing. To that end, I’m emulating Jeet Sukumaran’s disabling of the arrow keys to force a more efficient use of Vim’s other movement keys. It’s too bad my work doesn’t involve as much coding as it used to, or else … Read more
These are some nice-looking sticky notes. Imagine re-ordering with touch and drag.
How to do realtime web-application development using node.js and WebSockets. Contains a naive benchmark of node.js vs. Tornado.