Archive for the ‘general’ Category
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
I haven't had much ideas to write about lately, so how about this: You, my dear readers, get to tell me your favorite topic that you'd like to read/learn about.
Is there a specific topic you would like me to write about? As long as it's somewhat relevant to this blog's ...
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Monday, June 1st, 2009
I've been using Subversion for quite a while, and while it has some minor annoyances like complex merging, it never really bothered me.
Then along comes Git, touting that it's easy and that you're stupid if you don't use it. The technical stuff people said about it were impressing, but not ...
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Monday, May 4th, 2009
There was an interesting question recently on the Code Justin blog: Did you go to college for programming?, and how going/not affected you?
I already left a comment on it, but I want to put some more thoughts about that to this post.
My main feeling about this is that the answer ...
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Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
This is why I haven't been updating lately: I have been working on a Sim City clone, written purely in HTML, CSS and JavaScript!
The game is called WidgetCity, and I'm participating with it in the Betavine Widget Competition 2009.
The game was designed to run in Opera Widgets mode, but it ...
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Friday, March 27th, 2009
I've added a brand new Articles section to the codeutopia.net website. Its purprose is to make it easier to find information on specific topics from the blog.
I've written a lot of posts, and it can be difficult to find interesting ones by just searching or browsing the blog archives. ...
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Thursday, March 26th, 2009
Most games on consoles are easier to play for a beginner, than their PC versions. This is due to various factors, but I think it's mostly because it's easier to get into the game on a console than installing, learning the controls and all on a PC.
Let's take a look ...
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Friday, March 13th, 2009
Recently in one of my freelance projects, the client needed a feature that allows them to search the database for records with a date between two specific dates.
Rather than opting for the typical three text fields + a date selector, I added a little trick to make it better...
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Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
I was recently contacted by Packt Publishing, and asked if I wanted to review a book they published - Object-Oriented JavaScript, written by Stoyan Stefanov. I hadn't reviewed books before, but I decided to give it a shot!
As stated on Packt's website, by reading the book you will learn:
Create scalable, ...
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Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
I've been blogging over 2 years already. In 2007, I was blogging at my.opera, and later that year moved to this site.
Let's take a look at some of the best posts of 2007!
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Monday, February 9th, 2009
I recently bought myself an Asus Eee PC 901 netbook, with Linux preinstalled. It's a fine piece of machinery, and here are some thoughts on its hardware, software and how it worked together with my other devices, which are mainly Windows based.
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