It’s been a while, but I’ve been busy pwning n00bs at Modern Warfare 2 and Bad Company 2, and buying a car, so life has been pretty busy as of late. Have no fear though! I continue the look at the Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors with numbers 15 to 11. 15. Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions When you ASSUME things, you make an ASS out of U and ME. This is all about assumptions. You assume something will work, you ass...
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Wordpress is pretty much the blogging engine of choice. It’s used by so many people, and has so many plugins and an amazing following, you’d wonder why anybody would use anything else (well there are a number of reasons, but we can talk about that later). Some problems that come with Wordpress, with all that power, is sometimes it’s slow. Combine php, lots of plugins, and everything else, and your blog can come to a crawl, especially if you wr...
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Einstein@Home statistics in Wordpress sidebar
If, like me, you participate in some sort of grid computing project, it’s interesting to see your progress. I take part in Einstein@Home, and I wanted to display my stats in my sidebar (on my other blog). I’ll give you two ways to accomplish this. First way is the quick way, which involves including the jQuery Javascript library, and a second which involves writing your own Javascript. The second option results in a smaller file, but the jQuer...
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Daniel Huckstep is a software engineer (EIT) in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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