Category Archives: Professor von Clueless

Guardian, Dictator, Manager, Mentor, or Collaborator Be?

Posted on 2014-04-11-12:24 by orcmid

For open-source projects that I initiate, I want some way to acknowledge differentiation of roles that permit me to preserve in some friendly way my vision of what is essential for trustworthy development, releases, and life-cycle support.  I settled on … Continue reading →

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The Wonders of Off-by-One Defects

Posted on 2013-12-04-10:17 by orcmid

Yesterday, I happened to be filling out a Windows 8.1 Xbox Games message form.  I filled the form with exactly 0-characters left. When I sent the message, I received a “message too long” pop-up, reminding me of the length limit.  … Continue reading →

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How to not Support Windows Platforms

Posted on 2013-12-02-08:52 by orcmid

This analysis presented by Ed Bott on 2013-01-01 reminds me of something that has been nagging me for the past couple of years. It is amazing to me that web-site and application developers manage to be in complete denial about … Continue reading →

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RSS: Blogs as Publishing

Posted on 2013-01-03-12:54 by orcmid

I much prefer full-content blog feeds.  I want to be able to use my feed reader to see what the article is.  I can then delete it, flag it, or simply let it sit there until my attention comes back … Continue reading →

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Is it a category, tag, or label, and which smell as sweet?

Posted on 2012-04-08-13:07 by orcmid

Different blog publishing systems (the ones that put your blog pages where others see them) have different ways of labeling posts for various purposes. I want to use categories as a place to separate posts on a particular theme and … Continue reading →

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@Codecademy: The #codeyear Challenge

Posted on 2012-02-12-15:38 by orcmid

I’m fascinated by approaches that allow anyone to learn the basics of programming and take it as far as they want.   I’ve also noticed that JavaScript has increasing credibility as a starter language for becoming fluent with information technology and … Continue reading →

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Now on my Windows phone

Posted on 2011-09-17-19:34 by orcmid

Now that there is copy+paste, and a nice WordPress.com application, I can blog easily from my phone. That means I can spend even more time deleting spam comments. That means I can log in easily, now that I have a … Continue reading →

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