phillc | 11 years ago | on: Vindinium: An artificial intelligence programming challenge
I share your pain.
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phillc | 11 years ago | on: Kingston and PNY using cheaper components after good reviews
I'm currently trying to buy a pair of shoes on amazon, and many reviewers are calling out the fact that after giving the shoes a five star, they go to buy a second pair of the same shoe to find that it is completely different and of terribly quality.
phillc | 12 years ago | on: The Monster Truck Madness 2 site is unchanged from 1998
I actually owe my programming career to MTM. When I was ~10-11 years old, I held many tournaments. At some point, my tournament grew to the point where I couldn't manage signups day of, and tried to make a website using frontpage + some form of extensions (angelfire? tripod?) to have early signups. I eventually learned javascript and a tiny bit of perl.
Looking back at that point in time, I did a horrible job of managing those tournaments (Sometimes my pre-teen responsibilities took priority and made me miss some tournaments. Oh and I seem to remember storing passwords in clear text). However I look at myself today and am extremely happy to be a successful developer, which may have never happened if it hadn't been for the MTM1/MTM2 games and websites, which I am certain I probably copied a ton of "codes" from back then.
phillc | 12 years ago | on: Reveal.js
I use it here and there as well. I combined it with meteor to give a presentation without having to screen share. https://github.com/phillc/meteor-impress
Example: http://phillc-cd.meteor.com/
Open in multiple tabs and click the following button in the top left and move around.
phillc | 13 years ago | on: Six months with Meteor: Why the future of the web is real-time
You hit my opinion exactly. I love to hate/hate to love meteor because of how easy it is, but I just can't come up with an easy testing scheme outside of full out integration test, or making some separate modules that are injected. Thanks for the link.
phillc | 13 years ago | on: Why New Relic Is Raising $80 Million Now
If you are worried about cost, just run it on a subset of your servers. 10-20% of your servers should be enough to gather most information you need... unless you are using new relic as the only aggregator of server status/monitoring... and that should be heroku's job.
phillc | 13 years ago | on: Ruby gems are still not safe to use
Your philosophies are sound for banking software.
There are cases where startups, social impact organizations, or any fast moving team would pick rails for its fast movement, accessibility, and support, even if they thought that there were even more security issues than that have happened.
phillc | 13 years ago | on: Use Rails? Check yourself for the YAML exploit
Single location to aggregate a list of all vulnerable apps.
phillc | 13 years ago | on: Rails SQL injection vulnerability: here are the facts
If you are scanning your code base for find_by_'s, make sure to look at your find_all_by_'s as well if you have them.
phillc | 13 years ago | on: Rails SQL injection vulnerability: here are the facts
Thank you... I always wondered why that was true.
phillc | 13 years ago | on: Poll: Do you select text while reading?
Yep, it focuses my eyes.
While pair programming, it tends to drive the other person nuts.
phillc | 13 years ago | on: Nate Silver correctly called 50 out of 50 states
And that they took some of the learnings during the contest and saw some decent gains.
phillc | 13 years ago | on: Recurly billing down -- some customer data lost
One of the racks fell over onto the other racks, like dominios.
phillc | 13 years ago | on: Move Over Meteor: Derby Is The Other High Speed Node.js Framework In Town
Yes. I have played with many js frameworks, including derby, meteor, tower, and several more while attempting to build my toy app http://retr.us . While it is built in meteor, I have concluded that I liked socketstream the best because of the level of control, especially on the server side. It also was the easiest to write unit tests for.
phillc | 14 years ago | on: Best HTML5/CSS3 Presentation Frameworks
Thank you! I was in the middle of debating what to do my presentation in and decided to go with Shower because of your analysis.
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