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Category Archives: General

Leaving me behind

Filed under: Books,General— arlen@ 11:13 am

It occurred to me as I was wandering through a local bookshop that was undergoing a management change: the local bookstores have decided, apparently, that I’m no longer a customer worth having. They were in the process of selling off all the old inventory of the former owner, soon to be replaced with “books we […]

Testing, A Developer’s POV

Filed under: General,Technology,Web Design— arlen@ 11:10 pm

When do you test, how do you test, why do you test? Or even do you test? The answers to the first two questions are: “all the time,” and “as completely as possible.” The third question has several, longer, answers. And if you answered “No” to the last question, perhaps those answers will be of […]

On Planners

Filed under: General,Technology— arlen@ 11:19 am

I’ve tried them all, even tried building my own, either from from other people’s templates or my own. I just can’t seem to make them work. It’s no doubt just a personal failing. The common wisdom for them is what I call the “Highlander Principle” — there must be only one. It just doesn’t work […]

Mixed Emotions

Filed under: General,Politics,Technology— arlen@ 9:06 pm

OK, not all that mixed, but still…. Fannie Mae hit a little trouble recently with a contractor. I’m glad they caught him in time. But…

CSS and the meaning in presentation

Filed under: General,Web Design— arlen@ 12:51 am

There was a time when I was fully in agreement with Eric Meyer on the naming of classes. It made sense to me to create CSS class names based on the structure of the document. In fact, it was the only way that made sense to me. So what changed? Me, I guess. I can’t […]

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