Everything that doesn’t fit anywhere else
Mochikit is one of the many Javascript frameworks to pop up recently. It’s inspired by a lot of the functional programming fun from python and looks like it’s quite nice to use. Bob put up a screencast that shows off a bunch of the features… Definitely worth checking out if you’re doing Web 2.0 / AJAX / DHTML / whatever the hell we’re calling it this week.
As stated in the SLAR notes for System.Net.Authorization, avoid boolean parameters to methods.
Use an enum that captures the intent of the parameter instead. I hate
System.String.Compare(string, string, bool) for just this reason.
String.Compare("ben", "Ben", true) just looks silly to me. I much
prefer the new version that takes a StringComparison enum, resulting in
String.Compare("ben", "Ben", StringComparison.CurrentCultureIgnoreCase).
Yes, now the man who gave us the wonderful theory of relativity is alive and kicking with his head grafted on a robot body.
One day, this won’t be a joke. Just you wait.
Ooooooo…
Now this is sexy. Finally I could turn
my home PC into a DVR capable of
recording HD shows off my cable connection (or so it appears). I can’t
wait for 2006! (found on Engadget)
A few days ago, I added Google Analytics
to this site to see how Google’s taking on web tracking. So far, it
seems to think data is being gathered, but no data is showing up.
Apparently, a number of other folks are having this problem, though some folks are starting to see results.
Update! Since analytics isn’t really working out (yet), I did some poking around and found some similiar services: