Starting with version 10.10, coming out in October this year, Ubuntu will be using base 10 units, taking its lead from Apple’s move last year which I didn’t much like. At least Ubuntu will give users an option to switch back, something Apple is yet to do. (Options? On a mac? ha!)

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The Stack Overflow team recently announced that they were changing the question upvotes to only give 5 points instead of 10.
Though I’ve got plenty more reputation than I could possibly need (that is, I have full user-moderator rights), this has affected my score. A lot. Like -4250. Bummer. I ask a lot of questions […]

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Breaking with the theme of this blog, but this has been irritating me for some time now.
The “Voice Control” ad for the Ford Mondeo.

If you’re going to make an ad touting a new feature such as voice control, it’d probably be a good idea to not highlight how buggy your software is.

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Here's another common mistake I see on Stack Overflow from time to time. The basic pattern goes like this:

// get the contents from some remote file
$('#myElement').load('lipsum.html');   
alert($('#myElement').html());   
// wtf, it's still empty?!?

This is something that I struggled with when I started playing with AJAX techniques, too. It's quite understandable how so many people [...]

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So I'm a little addicted to Stack Overflow. I'll admit it. I browse it for fun, even during lunch-breaks and after work. As far as the reputation ranking goes, for the past 12 months or so, I've been sitting at around 30th to 40th place, first hitting the front page back in November 08, when [...]

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I've decided to start writing a short series of posts highlighting some common mistakes I see in questions and, more importantly, answers on Stack Overflow. I enter this knowing fully well that I am but an amateur who is also learning new things daily. Anyway, the series kicks off with Part Zero, titled 83.333% of [...]

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In response to a question about parsing XHTML with regexes.
Personally, I don't agree with him, but just.. just wow.

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Continuing with my fascination with the important things in programming languages — that's right, comment control structures — I have another idea!
Something which is a constant source of annoyance when using block comments is that sometimes you already have a block comment inside the larger area you are wishing to comment out:

function foo() {
    [...]

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A long time ago, someone stuffed up. Scientists were inventing new concepts in computers, including the units of measurement for computer memory: bytes. When they started working with larger numbers of bytes they realised they'd need some way to refer to larger multiples of them. Since everything in computers works in base-2, the closest thing [...]

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PHP6 will introduce a long awaited feature: namespacing. It should have been a joyous occasion for the PHP developers across the interblogosphere, but for one thing: the namespace separator is a backslash \.
A quick search for information about and reactions to this shocking revelation returns headlines and comments such as:
PHP is going to use backslash [...]

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