Clowns In My Coffee

Based on an enormous amount of work by contributors to Project Gutenberg and the Distributed Proofreaders, combined with healthy sourcing of the US copyright office’s records, Google has compiled a a list of works originally copyrighted between 1923 and 1963 which have been renewed at some point, the upshot being that if a given work [...]

I’ve been using jQuery a bit here and there to add some (I hope) usability enhancements and for light AJAJ work. Today I encountered a situation where I thought adding the “shift-select” feature on a longish list of checkboxes would be a good thing. This sort of feature pops up in webmail interfaces, [...]

Just a little bit; I tried out the prerelease of IntelliJ IDEA 7.0, and I liked it enough after some rough handling in casual use to actually pony up for a license now that it’s officially released. Like Netbeans, a default install does a whole lot more things I’d like an IDE to do [...]

I’ve been brewing a post about the eternal need for discipline by developers, and then Jeff Atwood posts Discipline Makes Strong Developers. Mine was going to be really good, too, full of all sorts of insights, phrased in a manner an effete critic might have labeled “delectable” or, not to puff myself up too [...]

Well, this seems worthwhile. I came across David Goodger’s “Code Like a Pythonista,” which takes the form of an S5 presentation generated from reStructured Text source. For the lazy, here’s the documentation on generating S5 from reST source.
I more or less punted the last time I had to create a presentation, while [...]