Programming – Page 2

Ferreting bugs out of KDE

This has got to be the best bug report I’ve ever read (via Semantic World and Cyberspace). Take a look…

WordPress hacking

I’ve been hacking WordPress during my vacation. The results are now up and available here with some documentation on what was done (and how).

I’ve been on a vacation with nothing planned this week so I’ve finally had time to hack around with WordPress. The new template system offers a great platform on which building customized views is easy. I added a thumbnail (and link) to the current image in The Life of Jalo, a list of the five latest posts when viewing a single entry, a link to geocaches near us if you’re viewing a geocaching post, now playing information, and I jumped the folksonomy bandwagon. The rest of this post is fairly technical in content, so if code and web development aren’t your thing, you might want to move on.

The importance of backups

A fried hard-drive, out-of-sync production environment and version control, and no backups. A recipe for lots of avoidable work…

The innards of route finders

A discussion on how the internals of route finding services are unintentionally revealed to end users.

We’re going to Lahti tomorrow for a concert in the Sibelius Hall. Since neither one of us has the foggiest idea where it is, we decided to use a mapping service to show us the route.

Stifling creativity

On how a single, small project can stifle all creativity for weeks.