Posts by Code Monkey

DRAM

I thought this was going to be a story about whisky. Imagine my disappointment!

Wow

All that's missing is a "kthxbai".

Down with that sort of thing

I saw this coming. With the rise of "become a fan to see [something]" pages, the page punting malware wasn't so far away. So long Facebook, hello free time spend more wisely.

How to permanently delete your Facebook account

http://www.groovypost.com/howto/security/permanently-delete-your-facebook-profile-account/

Following these steps deletes, rather than deactivates your account. Which is nice.

Nostalgia Factor

Is anyone (else) of a certain age looking at that keyboard and thinking "Spectrum"?

I've been idly wondering about a keyboard for the PS3 and the nostalgia factor could make this the one.

Get it right, bitch

@Facebook - get this right or I'm off. Bitch.

There's a Firefox add-on too

You can also get an add-on to use it in Firefox's search bar. Which is nice.

Semi-literate nonsense

"'Following: 0 Followers: 0' dat is wat i saw 5mins ago::::i jumpd up nd i realise twitter is fixin' a problem dats y....!!"

Generally I'd blame the user rather than the platform but the 140 character limit really does encourage semi-literate nonsense like this.

It's only a game

It's only a game

I'm gonna build my own Flash

...with blackjack and hookers

Nice idea but...

It'll take a Large UK Govt IT Project to implement it and we all know how well they turn out.

Speaking as a developer it'd be a wet dream to write such a system. Speaking as a taxpayer the project would be a shambles to rival the one in Hackney, etc. last night.

Yawn

Maybe that's ok for a consumer web application. Those of us writing web applications for the public sector know that schools/local authorities/govt departments just refuse to upgrade.

Take a stand and you'll have my admiration but I'll not be throwing away business. I'll just grit my teeth and keep charging for all those hours of extra testing and CSS-writing.

I'm gonna get my own standard

With blackjack and hookers

Asteroids all the way down?

But where did the asteroids' water come from. Or is it asteroids all the way down?

"Naturally talented in the trouser department"

People who are "naturally talented in the trouser department" (cracking turn of phrase there, Reg) aren't copper material at all. They don't have that need to order people around.

Nah

It's Frank Zappa - possibly off the cover of Apostrophe.

What's in a name?

Having attracted the attention of the Chocolate Factory, they're obviously making a living doing something much cooler than I am but Lab Pixies? Guffaw!

HTC

Nice size but Windows? Make a small Android phone and you'll have my hard-won!

Duel-boot

Presumably this involves the 2 OSes slugging it out to decide which gets to run the phone this time.

Back on topic, well done to the devs. It's this sort of wonderful if a bit pointless webserver-on-a-toaster daftness that makes this industry so interesting.

Reverse engineering an open source library?

Why didn't he just read the source

My docs and Facebook's privacy policy

You have got to be joking! The worst of all cloudy worlds

And what do I find appealing in a woman?

Having the sense to realise it's just a bloody phone!

Puritan

Who voted for these Puritans that have taken over the English-speaking world? They'll be banning dancing next!

I agree - not a hack

I work for one of Blackboard's competitors and don't consider that a hack.

You can secure an application as much as you like and it's all for nothing if teachers are going to leave login details lying about in classrooms.

Alfredo Hernandez

Is that the great Alfredo Hernandez (Kyuss, Yawning Man, too many others to mention) on the bottom of page 4?

Skidmarks

"Missouri state engineers will now monitor the pigshit pavement for durability, skidmarks etc in coming months."

Very good!

Schoolboy error

I'm as prone to using daft test data as the next dev but I NEVER mess about with anything that can send email. My tests are always along the lines "This is a test email from [company]. If you have received this in error, please ignore it."

It's po-faced but the consequences of forgetting your test app's connected to, say, your company email list are too embarassing to contemplate.

'Droid for me then

All the more reason to vote 'Droid at upgrade time.

iMeh

iMeh

"Vote Tory we dig Tw*tter"

Blatant electioneering from a posh clown who clearly doesn't have a clue!

In the interests of balance are we going to see "Vote Labour, our Orwellian database lust will keep you all in work" and "Vote Lib Dem, we won't get in but at least you won't have to feel guilty for voting in the next 5 years of sociopathic lizards"?

Shame, Reg

So the moral is...

...be careful who you poke?