Dan McKinley : January 2006

Choose Your Constants Carefully

posted Monday, January 30, 2006 10:29 AM by mcfunley with 0 Comments

You never know what will become an API.[13:23] DarrelHerbst: did you make the annotated stock chart left link have linkId=666 on purpose?[13:23] McFunley: yes[13:23] DarrelHerbst: it looks really cool in this document i'm writing Read More

Online Sports Journalism Audition

posted Saturday, January 28, 2006 6:54 AM by mcfunley with 2 Comments

I'll admit, I personally prefer complete sentences, paragraphs, and attempted grammar. But, I thought I would try to write a "column" that is nothing but a long, bulleted list since this approach seems to be working for the so-untalented-he's-talented Read More

Debugger Feature Request

posted Thursday, January 26, 2006 3:04 PM by mcfunley with 3 Comments

Mike Stall has had a recent string of posts about debugger features, which got me thinking about what I waste time doing in debuggers these days. Omniscient debuggers would be great, but what I would really like is a memory window that I can annotate. Read More

Psychic Debugging: Random Crashes

posted Tuesday, January 24, 2006 7:24 PM by mcfunley with 1 Comments

Raymond Chen has had an entry or two about "Psychic Debugging." This skill is a lot like everyday psychic abilities by virtue of being really just intuition and guesswork, but dissimilar in that it produces results that benefit society.Today one of the Read More

The Curse of Siragusa

posted Saturday, January 21, 2006 6:10 AM by mcfunley with 0 Comments

Tony Siragusa is the nuclear option in Fox Sports' ongoing war against dramatic pause. Every Sunday he roves the sidelines ensuring that even the slightest moment of dead air is filled with sense-dulling stupidity. "I love coming to Cleveland because Read More

Globalize Your Forms

posted Saturday, January 14, 2006 12:34 PM by mcfunley with 0 Comments

Here's another form I had to fill out twice, from nespresso.com:Nespresso is a Swiss subsidiary of Nestle, which I assume is the reason that this form ignores the "city, state, zip" convention we have here in the U.S. and instead opts for "zip, city, Read More

Cry Me a River, Stupid Ohio

posted Monday, January 09, 2006 9:10 PM by mcfunley with 2 Comments

For a decade and a half, I was aware of exactly two Bengals fans.ESPN personality and all-around good guy Dan Patrick.A very irate patron of St. Mark's Ale House in New York City. This guy had positioned himself in a wooden chair in the center of a crowded Read More

Why 'The Perils of JavaSchools' Makes a Valid Point

posted Tuesday, January 03, 2006 6:52 PM by mcfunley with 1 Comments

I cast my lot with Joel Spolsky in this, his latest, made-to-order internet dweeb controversy. There are some mentally-challenged folks, on either side of the aisle, that see it as an attack on Java. I'm not sure that they've read past the title, but Read More

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