Month: June 2011
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Circles
There’s a reason why Google chose circles for its new Google + social graph, and it isn’t just because it’s a clever name. If you search Google’s archive of images for the phrase “social graph” every single relevant image that comes up portrays relationships as being circular. In the screen shot above, it’s clear that…
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Preventing BuddyPress Spam
Interesting read by Ed Bury on preventing BuddyPress sign-up spam using a combination of a honeypot, random hashes, and blacklisted domain names.
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Code should read like a diary
Code should read like a diary. When someone you’ve never met picks it up and starts reading, what you wrote is all that person will ever know for sure. If you leave out intimate details, those details are lost forever.
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Dvorak – Day 7
It’s been seven whole days since I switched from qwerty to Dvorak, and I’m happy to report that progress is steady and my accuracy and speed are improving day by day. There is a hurdle I still repeatedly trip over, and it’s the one that prevented me from making the switch originally a year ago.…
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Dvorak – Day 4
Today I said this in a comment, and it summed up day 4 of dvorak quite nicely: …it’s ended up to be less about speed. I’ve gotten so good at navigating qwerty (about 95 wpm on a good day) that in recent years I’ve slowly taken it for granted. I’ve been careless with my words…
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Dvorak – Day 3
Insomnia strikes, so in an attempt at brevity for the sake of sleeping, things are slow and steady. I am still quite amazed at how little my fingers move around, and at how quickly I’ve been able to adapt to the new layout. In light of yesterday’s revelation, I’ve started using downtime to silently recite…
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Texas Fire
I spent his past week in Austin, TX for a team meet-up, and was made frighteningly aware of the seriousness of the draught and wildfire situation when I saw this on my way home Friday, from approximately 30,000 feet in the air: [wpvideo QxQ114gv] I’m not sure exactly where this fire was, but judging by the…
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Dvorak – Day 2
After my second full day of Dvorak, I can tell that my fingers are doing much less traveling around the keyboard. It almost makes the keys feel small and squished together while typing because my fingers leave their respective positions so infrequently. I have managed to commit a few commonly used home-row words to muscle memory…
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Dvorak – Day 1
Today is the first day of the rest of my Dvorak life. I tried to switch a year ago but only lasted about 2 hours before being so disoriented and frustrated that I gave up and (literally) swore it off as something I would never have the patience or commitment to try again. Today I decided to…