Author Archives: Kodiak

Ironic Photo

The Springfield Republican now uses the slogan “where the news hits home” on the side of their trucks. That’s kind of ironic when the truck dives into someone’s house. Irony number two: out of all the local news papers where this could have happened, it happened to the one I used to deliver. That could […]

Eye of the Tiger

RIT did a lip dub of Survivor’s classic Eye of the Tiger earlier this year. I knew about it when they did it, but I had never seen the video until I came across an old email today.

Subaru, the Original Smart Car?

In 1968, Subaru entered the American market with the 360 mini-sedan. The tiny car, which Subaru marketed as being “cheap and ugly,” cost just $1297 (which would be about $8036 in 2010 dollars). Subaru marketing (see below) boasted that the 360 could go—even places that larger cars wouldn’t fit. With a length roughly equivalent to […]

Generate Accessors and Mutators Automatically with PDT

I’ve been using PDT, the PHP Development Tools IDE that’s built on top of Eclipse, for my PHP development for a few years now. I came to appreciate the power and flexibility of Eclipse as a Java IDE, so it only made sense to use PDT for my PHP coding. One thing that’s always frustrated […]

HTTP Post vs. HTTP Get

I am currently involved, for the second time in the past few months, in interviewing for a new web programmer/analyst to join my team at work. Given that we are a web applications shop, several of our technical questions revolve around web protocols. I’ve now spoken with, between the two positions, around a dozen applicants. […]

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