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Wilhelm von Hackensplat: May 2010
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Software development, Technology and Philosophy from the alter ego of Bill P. Godfrey. Saturday, 22 May 2010. Google have got into a bit of hot water when it emerged that while their cars drove around taking pictures for their Street View. Service, they collected and stored people’s private WiFi traffic. People have understandably got angry with Google for doing this, but I think some demystification is in order. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). In the real world, I'm Bill P. Godfrey. Is my blogging alter ego.
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Wilhelm von Hackensplat: March 2010
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Software development, Technology and Philosophy from the alter ego of Bill P. Godfrey. Sunday, 28 March 2010. Wishing for a destructor (C#). I like the C# programming language. It feels like C done right, divesting itself of much of the C legacy that complicates matters so much. When I do programming, I prefer to use this language. Having to go back and deal with C just doesnt give me that warm feeling like it used to. But, I have a pet peeve that I miss from C . Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Wilhelm von Hackensplat: June 2011
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Software development, Technology and Philosophy from the alter ego of Bill P. Godfrey. Friday, 24 June 2011. Clever and totally pointless - my first publication. Way back in the early 90s, I subscribed to a magazine (think of it like a big website but printed on paper and sent through the post) called ‘PC Plus’. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). This is where I talk about software development, technology and philosophy. In the real world, I'm Bill P. Godfrey. Is my blogging alter ego. I am also an artist.
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Wilhelm von Hackensplat: PHP - Some strings are more equal than others
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Software development, Technology and Philosophy from the alter ego of Bill P. Godfrey. Sunday, 29 April 2012. PHP - Some strings are more equal than others. You may have recently read about the PHP programming language, when it was found that if you compare the two strings. Operator, PHP will report these as identical. Most of the time PHP does the right thing, but you need to be careful about these exceptions to the rule. This was reported as a bug to the people who maintain PHP. Will see them as equal.
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Wilhelm von Hackensplat: July 2014
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Software development, Technology and Philosophy from the alter ego of Bill P. Godfrey. Thursday, 17 July 2014. Is your API broken? Welcome to the Example Rutabaga Company. We’ve got a simple REST API for all your rutabaga needs! Indeed, it is simple…. 160; POST https:/ rutabaga.example.com/Order/ HTTP/1.1. 160; Content-Type: application/json. 160; {Quantity: 5800,. 160; Quality: Tasty! 160; DeliverTo: 123 Fake Street, New Orleans}. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Is my blogging alter ego.
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Copy-paste defects | Fabulous adventures in coding
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Fabulous adventures in coding. Eric Lippert's blog. Skip to primary content. July 17, 2014. Continuing with my series of answers to questions that were asked during my webcast on Tuesday:. The copy-paste checker example you showed was interesting. I’ve heard that NASA disallows copy-pasting in code because it is so error prone; is this true? That was a potentially extraordinarily costly defect. Anyway, to return to the actual question, I do not know if NASA has this rule, but it is a pretty good rule!
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Lets Play: Ancient Greek Geometry | sciencevsmagic.net
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Lets Play: Ancient Greek Geometry. June 26, 2013. Today I’m releasing Let’s Play: Ancient Greek Geometry. It’s a Compass and Straightedge tool/puzzle game written in JavaScript. I’ve always thought Geometric Construction felt like a puzzle, so to me this pairing was quite natural. Compass and Straight edge is a technique for constructing shapes out of circles, straight lines, and their intersection points. You can read the wikipedia here. 8211; but watch out, some of the gifs are spoilers for the game.
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Wilhelm von Hackensplat: April 2012
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Software development, Technology and Philosophy from the alter ego of Bill P. Godfrey. Sunday, 29 April 2012. PHP - Some strings are more equal than others. You may have recently read about the PHP programming language, when it was found that if you compare the two strings. Operator, PHP will report these as identical. Most of the time PHP does the right thing, but you need to be careful about these exceptions to the rule. This was reported as a bug to the people who maintain PHP. Is my blogging alter ego.
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Wilhelm von Hackensplat: NEVER sanitize your inputs!
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Software development, Technology and Philosophy from the alter ego of Bill P. Godfrey. Sunday, 8 September 2013. NEVER sanitize your inputs! I've seen this cartoon. Being linked-to in so many comment threads and forums. Anytime its even a little bit applicable, someone will post a link to this cartoon. It has become so pervasive that if you search Google for "327". It’ll be the third link returned, right after the Wikipedia pages for the year. And the next XKCD. Is no-where to be seen. But what about our...
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