The 3 virtues of a programmer as defined by Larry Wall, Randal L. Schwartz and Tom Christiansen (in Programming Perl).
Laziness - The quality that makes you go to great effort to reduce overall energy expenditure. It makes you write labor-saving programs that other people will find useful, and document what you wrote so you don't have to answer so many questions about it. Hence, the first great virtue of a programmer. Also hence, this book. See also impatience and hubris.
Impatience - The anger you feel when the computer is being lazy. This makes you write programs that don't just react ...
Im asking you the public if i should release my auto tweeter program. Its a php script that you can do alot of different things with but first and formost it allows you to post to a twitter account, many twitter accounts, one message, different messages, random messages, and a multitude of other things.
Ill decide on how to proceed as the reples pour in.
Ran into a unique problem when i switched servers from innohost back to hostgator(more on that later). Aparently, for some reason passing a full url to wvurl's api (wvurl.com/api-create.php) caused the server to return index.php and its subsequent headers.
After much time spent with support finding out if it was something server side to blame, I found a workaround by using str_replace to replace the colon in the url, with %3A and then pass the URL to the script.
This was a problem because three autotweet programs (beckleyrt, wvjobs, and wvurl twitter) all rely on the wvurl api to generate their URL's.
The ...
Did i miss something? Did i sleep in and wake up in a time where google wasnt enough? I think that microsoft's bing.com "decision engine", ITS NOT A SEARCH ENGINE! (i bet MS people get repremanded for calling it that). Microsoft is not competing to compete. The classic "the contest is hopeless, lets change the terms and act snooty" strategy that so many immature children play on a day to day basis has been adopted by one of the most influencial companies of the modern era. All the venting aside...I need to take a look at this thing.
Well ill be ...
I dont get it. Sometimes im on top of the world, others im on the bottom. I was sitting in the car last night after coming back from a drive, and i was listening to the baseball game going on across the street in the park. I said to heather "listen to that. Those people are off of work, enjoying themselves, watching their kids play, no worries". Seems like i cant wake up in the morning without being dragged down by some kind of ongoing thing that i cant seem to overcome ot get off my back. The worst part ...
A week ago I drove to Charleston to meet up with some other like minded people from Twitter, at a coffee shop in town. I parked, went in, sat down, and was right at home in the discussions. One of the guys there, Jason Keeling, who runs A Better West Virginia, asked me to write a blog post about what i feel hinders the advancement of our state of West Virginia.
Ive thought about this and came to a conclusion. The tweetup. Thats whats wrong with West Virginia. Now, dont think I mean that having tweetup's is bad for the state. ...