Refactoring explained to an absolute beginner

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Recently while on a drive with a non-programmer friend, I talked with him about code complexity and manageability, how very complicated code is detrimental to productivity and stuff like that. Later on, I decided to explain it to him with actual code examples, although the most he has ever done was some HTML back in elementary school. Here’s what I …

The best old “indie” games

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Just for fun, here’s a list of the best old shareware/freeware games I played before Windows XP and such even existed… The word indie is quoted because these games would probably be called that nowadays, but weren’t back then :D

Blog moved

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If you see this it means everything has now been moved and the DNS has propagated correctly :) Please let me know if anything appears broken (Leave a comment or contact me via email/IM)

Moving hosting providers

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I’ll be switching hosts from Dreamhost to MediaTemple this weekend, so you may experience hiccups. There will be a new post when the blog has moved.

Solving the alt-tab problem: My solution

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Lately there’s been some discussion about “the alt tab problem” – In other words, when you have lots of windows open and when working on something you constantly jump between a few of them. Basically when doing this, it becomes tricky to recall which window you get when you alt tab once, or twice, and so on. If you’re not …