Category Archives: misc
Passing the Turing Test
One of the books I am currently reading is “An Introduction to Neural Networks“. The introductory chapter covered the Turing Test and the fact that no computer has ever come close to passing it. The context of the chapter was about the limitations of the computer to house and efficiently access a db of [...]
Trying out bloggers mobile interface
Adding some message body to see where it ends up.
Book Review: Practical Rails Social Networking Sites
Title: Practical Rails Social Networking SitesAuthor: Alan BradburneISBN: 1590598415ISBN-13: 9781590598412421 pagesPublished: Jun 2007
So far my web development background has mainly consisted of Java (J2EE) and PHP. I just started playing with Ruby and now Ruby on Rails. I’ve worked through a few of the tutorials linked from [...]
When Adventurous Coders get Bored
I convinced a friend to try this, hopefully space/time fabric was unaffected.
One more rule for the universe
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You may not travel faster than the speed of light
You may not power on a virtual machine in a virtual machine
Getting Around Clients that only allow connection from a single IP
As a freelance Web Developer, I often find myself this circumstance.Client X states…
“We can allow you access to our network but only through your single dedicated IP“
I won’t go into how ‘un’-realword this is in this day and age (what freelance coder always works behind a single IP?). I tend to work from coffee shops [...]
Insta’ favicon
Dynamic Drive has a very nice favicon tool. I’ve been a fan of the Drive for many years now. Great place to find DHTML widgets
Password Policies
Have you ever seen a more pathetic password policy (I’m sure you have but this one is pretty bad). Black-hat hackers must love this if they are able to use brute force type attacks. What poor excuse for a backend can only support passwords in this format?? I never understand why sites don’t allow you [...]
