OneAndOneIs2

A strength of open-source software is how customisable it is. This is a good thing. However, it has one downside - once you get used to having certain behaviour in place, it drives you nuts to be on another system that has different behaviour.Of cour… more »

The previous JS example was all well & good - it used a closure to store the data it needed - but it was a 'public' variable - you could intrude on the object and change the value yourself. This is bad, of course. THIS is far better: Instead of cr… more »

If you spend much time chatting online, you'll have encountered URLs that are far too long to be nice in a conversation. It's nice to have an alternative, and that's what tinyurl.com and other such services do - give them a long URL, and they give you a… more »

I gave another talk for my local LUG this week. Which maybe wasn't the best idea, considering I had a cold & sore throat. Still, nothing some benzydamine hydrochloride couldn't help sort out..The subject was ssh, and since the audience ranged fro… more »

...PVCS!My workplace uses a variety of software written in a variety of langauages. Sadly, this includes some legacy code. Written in Cobol.Over two million lines of Cobol. In nearly five thousand seperate files.It's version-controlled, of co… more »