Recently, McCain introduced a bill for consideration which would effectively block the FCC’s attempts at creating so-called “Network Neutrality” rules which ISPs and Telcos would be required to follow.  Now, setting aside for a moment the fact that McCain has received more than double as much money as the next-highest senator to be bankrolled by […]

Just as a quick FYI, it has come to my attention that all programming languages suck. Prolog, PL/1, Perl, C, C++, ASM, Haskell, PHP, Python, Ruby, Tcl, Java, Delphi, COBOL, FORTRAN, Pascal, Visual Basic, ASP.NET, Ocaml, C# and so on… all worthless. This comes as a huge relief. According to further reading I’ve done, all […]

…if it hasn’t solved your problem yet, you’re not using enough. Curiously, I always thought of that little quip as a subtle indictment of the problems with XML, but it seems to almost be a rallying cry for proponents of the standard (I refuse to recognize XML as a “language”).  And when I say proponents, […]

Another quick rant/post about the wonderful world of abusing javascript. Consider the following code: function moveScreen() { var myWidth = 0, myHeight = 0; if (typeof(window.innerWidth) == ‘number’) { //Non-IE myWidth = window.innerWidth; myHeight = window.innerHeight; } else if (document.documentElement && (document.documentElement.clientWidth || document.documentElement.clientHeight)) { //IE 6+ in ‘standards compliant mode’ myWidth = document.documentElement.clientWidth; myHeight […]