Well, we did it... after an incredible series of mishaps (like this) and failures to source essential equipment (like this), things actually started going really well. Our assigned genre was Crime,...
Somehow, I've managed to destroy two hard-drives recently, and in the process lost a small but significant collection of writing, mostly stuff that I was planning to publish here. As things fell...
So I've started another website, a kind of ongoing accident, with the idea echoing so intensely during Webstock as I culled together my 8x5 presentation, it just seemed to burst out of my brain...
This essay explains the core goals and meaning behind why I write here. Despite the distraction of my virulent disdain for closed source software, the most important point you should take away if...
Ruby programs can be written in unicode, meaning that you can label a real lambda. Once, when working on a school assignment to build a simple regular expression interpreter, I had a similar flash...
Check out this footage of my old mate Bryce in the ring with Shane Cameron, shot not long before the brutal fight in Auckland where Cameron ended up ahead on points but had his forehead beaten to...
PHP is flawed. Deeply, immensely so. I first discovered this over a year ago, when I made the naive assumption that PHP 5.1 had fixed a lot of the language level failings of its predecessor. Because...
Advice from the hacked (via). The raging reality of having your GMail account stolen: What matters more for your immediate concerns, entropy is out to get you and entropy is going to win....
Since Ali posted 20 things I learned at FullCodePress, I thought I'd chime in with my own observations from the perspective of being programmer for the Code Blacks: Working side by side is...
In Hearing without listening, 37Signals screws up, then admits what they did wrong and how they fixed it. In the end, it's just a matter of several weeks downtime before the application is working...
Well I went to upload some new writing and just snapped - I couldn't write here until I was happy with the way it was presented. So I tore down all the styles and javascripts, leaving just a structural...
I think someone is trying to tell me something... I've been noticing requests for http://maetl.coretxt.net.nz/http popping up in the logs, which is probably a sign that I should be fixing a few...
It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning...
The last few days I've been locked into a frustrating negative and consuming frame of mind where writing and programming clash together, which unfortunately caused a few headaches. Just one of those...
Or I'm a complete and total dumbarse... Uploaded some random experiments via FTP, and accidentally overwrote some of the core libraries without realising it. The good thing is that it forced me...
