I am amazed at how fast character arrays are compared to their string alternatives in every programming language I’ve ever used. This shouldn’t be a huge surprise but I thought I’d point out that by switching from Standard Template Library strings to char arrays in C++ on a project I’ve got going things sped [...]

Within the last couple years I have gotten more into design methodology, planning methodology and the evaluation of code quality verses quantity. I read several blogs that attempt to broach this subject: lesscode.org and 37signals‘ blog. They’ve had a disagreement recently, which is fine, its none of my business… I don’t care. [...]

A client has been evaluating various bug tracking software, and one of the packages, Mercury Quality Center, is written with many Active-X controls. Strangely enough they have a thesaurus button on the bug entry dialog. My co-contractor and friend Matt had the following to say:
Did you notice that the defect entry screen in [...]

Recently a support request for Wordpress came up on the wp-hackers email list I subscribe to that reminded me of one of the big delimas of programming (and frankly much of life): If you can do something, should you do it? There is a big, and valuable, movement in web design called contingency design. [...]

If you use the Web-FX IE emulation code and users hit your site with Firefox 1.03… it’s not going to work. I don’t fully know what happened in the Firefox code but you can replace all instances of ‘this.[javascript object or parameter]‘ within the extendEventObject function. Due to not being certain of legalities [...]