http://codingexperiments.com CodingExperiments.com is a site where I can (obviously) experiment with various demonstrations of code. Mon, 17 Nov 2008 03:24:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The ancient practice of putting various monsters in unexplored regions of maps and the phrase based on that, "Here be dragons", applies still to programming.  Personally, I've always had a dragon the size of a moon (or battlestation, if one prefers) on my own mental map in the area of ... http://codingexperiments.com/archives/493 The web application in permanent beta is the latest fashion in today's Internet world. Some folks believe that after several years of testing, that web applications ought to shed the beta tag and call themselves stable. I disagree. Open source desktop software is significantly more flexible than a closed source web application ... http://codingexperiments.com/archives/481 A year or two ago, I dug out an old Compaq Presario 4508 with the task to get Ethernet working on it. After multiple failed attempts, I was successful. But my efforts were worthless, because I couldn't find a decent browser for it. Last week, I dug out the old Compaq ... http://codingexperiments.com/archives/462 I have previously written about Kwippy, and that was pretty much the best post ever on this sad little blog. Why? Because I actually managed to publish an email interview with Kwippy CEO Mayank Dhingra . That's right! An email interview, like those big A-list bloggers do all the time! Yeah! So, what ... http://codingexperiments.com/archives/444 Introduction You have seen those extremely brilliant ant-Linux anti-Linux trolls that demonstrate their brilliance on IRC channels, message boards, and blog posts, right? (No, I'm not talking about the Linux Hater. He is a different kind of animal. The Linux Hater is actually useful to the Linux community.) Now, I bet that you've ... http://codingexperiments.com/archives/427 Introduction Adobe Flash, while it appears to be buggier on Linux, is a neat thing. I can watch animations and play games right through my web browser. Now, I would prefer that Adobe Flash not be put to the use of making entire websites, or even major parts of websites, such ... http://codingexperiments.com/archives/386 Introduction "Listen. Easy now," said the old man gently. "I know, I know. You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was younger I shoved my ignorance in people's faces. They beat me with sticks. By the time I was forty my blunt instruments ... http://codingexperiments.com/archives/407 You know why I haven't posted in a while? No, it is not because I'm really busy, but because the CodingExperiments team has been churning draft after draft and ping-ponging back and forth between them to make updates. The result is a massive amount of half-baked blog posts. Working on ... http://codingexperiments.com/archives/402 Sorry I was unable to post for a while. I wasn't busy, but wrote a bunch of drafts and decided I wouldn't publish them. I shouted to the Internet that I am unhappy with existing RSS readers. Now, let's use our prediction skills to see what will happen next. Hmm... Programmers ... http://codingexperiments.com/archives/380 You can find the song at http://codingexperiments.com/examples/song.mp3 I'm not that great of a singer, but I don't think that the song is *too* bad for a silly parody that I came up with in an IM conversation. EDIT: If you didn't see the original post, you can find the lyrics to my ... http://codingexperiments.com/archives/370