Entries in the ‘Programming’ Category:

Web-Based Version Management

This is an idea to help with CyTE, but I’d like to start seeing this idea applied to other web-based software as well. Having an interface to update the software easily and keep a revision history would help web-based apps become closer to desktop apps. Programs like Adobe Flash Player will check for updates periodically, [...]

MTG:DB Updates

I was looking at my google analytics account and saw that the
MTG:DB site was actually getting a little bit of traffic from google. One visitor even spent 40 minutes searching through cards (and I know it wasn’t me since the source was google and not direct). I figured the site could use a few [...]

Programming Analogies

I like to think of programming languages as tools. It’s always best to use the right tool for the job… but sometimes there isn’t a choice.
Say you have 4 hammers in the toolbox, a JSP hammer, a php hammer, a Ruby hammer, and a Python hammer. The Ruby and Python hammers are nice looking [...]

New Stuff

I installed WordPress since I didn’t have enough time to commit to making
MorfU as awesome as I would like. The old Code Spatter layout was also getting stale, so I found some fresh WordPress skins that were listed on
this list of 100.
I copied all of the old posts into here and made sure [...]

Startup Weekend Spin-off Yields Greatness

Over the 3-day weekend I got together with a group of web developers that have free time on their hands and great ideas to throw around. On various occasions we had talked about how we wanted to make something that would be helpful to many people and maybe even change the world. We knew the [...]