Recently, Roy Bahat, president of IGN Entertainment, wrote about why he's learning to code. This part of his post, coming from someone who isn't a programmer by profession, was especially insightful: Every time I open my editor, I’m reminded that I can’t just “jump in for a few minutes” the way I can with my [...]
A few days ago I was arguing with a friend about the right way to indent code. Being a spaces-for-indentation fanatic myself, I complained about the hard tabs he was using in one of his github repos and he in turn expressed shock that I actually waste time on this space-for-indentation thing. If you're an [...]
Today, while working on my Ruby on Rails project, I got a "500 - Internal server error" page soon after I tried to run the project after running a migration. There was nothing else on the screen except for that one line. I tried a few things, like restarting NetBeans, and opening another project to [...]
Microsoft recently made an announcement saying that they will continue to support IE6 until August 8, 2014. That's another 5 years. Can you imagine that? Another 5 years of supporting IE6 when HTML5 and CSS3 are just around the corner. If you are a web developer, you probably hate IE6 as much as I do [...]