I've never been a huge fan of the whole 'infinite scrolling' pattern, largely because there are so many ways to implement it wrongly, and so many implementations seem to screw it up.

Consider the following use cases, both of which I've experienced, and the expected behavior that would occur on a normal paginated implementation:

1. 
   You're on a site ( Read more... )

LJ FINALLY FIXED COMMENTING WITH ICONS THAT HAVE MULTIPLE KEYWORDS. After...how long already? (Edit: The new comment system was from December of last year. Sure feels like it's been longer. -_-;;)

When did they actually fix this, anyway? Must have been fairly recently...

After 28 (ah, off-by-one errors, the bane of programmers) 29 years of living in Georgia, I have moved to the Boston metro area for work. (Arlington, specifically ( Read more... )

I am now officially a Ph.D.

Now, to try to find stable employment...

This entry was originally posted at http://codeman38.dreamwidth.org/3725.html.

Yeah, I know, y'all are wondering what I got and gave for Christmas this year...

My big present wasn't actually delivered at Christmas-- in fact, it wasn't even a physical possession. Neither me nor my girlfriend can drive, and we're no longer even living in the same state (though at least we're in neighboring states, so it could be much worse). ( Read more... )

I was just checking Zap2it's page on Doctor Who to see if that show was going to be running on anything other than BBC America, which isn't on the cable tier I have... and found out it wasn't going to be, alas. However, I did find this hilarious example of natural language processing gone horribly wrong:


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Finally switched to an S2 style here because the bug with color schemes on S1 styles was bugging me that much. Besides, I needed to change it; the old template was a table-based mess that was seriously deprecated by now.

(Yeah, you can tell I do web development as a side job, can't you?)

Netflix users, check out this post on my personal domain regarding how to load custom subtitles into Netflix's web player. Turns out that someone's discovered a hidden feature that allows one to load any W3C Timed Text subtitle file, and with a bit of Python scripting (which, in turn, I've ported from a Windows PowerShell script), it's possible to ( Read more... )

1.) Go to google and type in "You know you're from [your area] when..."
2.) Cut and paste the list
3.) Bold or italicize items that apply to you.

(from this Facebook page)

( What, no mention of Peachtrees? )

So Christmas has come and gone, I'm back home for the holidays. Which, of course, means the standard gift exchange with my family ( Read more... )