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While I do feel that I have learned a great deal in the past three years as a software engineer, there’s still much more for me to learn.  One blog to that I read on a very regular basis is Coding Horror, which is comprised of the various software related articles written by Jeff Atwood.
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OK, I’m definitely being nicer with my title than Arstechnica’s Fake popup study sadly confirms most users are idiots.  Regardless of the title, the study about user responses to error or warning dialog boxes is quite interesting.  In the study, conducted by the Psychology Department of North Carolina State University, had the users perform a task which included [...]

Tonight, NBC is continuing one of my favorite television shows ever: Heroes. I know I don’t generally talk about television shows too much, however I just wanted to throw in my two cents that I hope they continue this show for a while. I was quite disappointed when the second season was [...]

All ah kin recommend ye is that ye best be speakin’ like a proper pirate, or yer booty will be becommin’ the property of yours truly. You who don’t be follow the current events best be readin’ up, cuz this day of our lord if speak like a pirate day. So now that [...]

Today I just release Fortune Widget 0.4, which includes corrections for Wordpress 2.2.x and newer (I know… I know… a little behind the curve here).  Additionally I’ve added some better error output to indicate why a fortune file read may have failed such as whether the fortune.php script is readable or if it’s the fortune [...]