Author Archives: Richard Rodger

Rant: The Evils of Indentation (FREE STUFF If You Prove Me Wrong!)

Do you indent your code for good or evil? Of all the horrors that afflict the pilgrim programmer, evil indentation is the most horrific. The horrifying lack thereof, the horrifying use of tabs, the horrifying concoction of tabs and spaces, … Continue reading




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Interview for Entrepreneur Focus Book

I just got my copy of Entrepreneur Focus, a new book on starting-up companies by Eric Locken. He asked me to do an interview for the book about my experiences starting Ricebridge, so with an ego the size of a … Continue reading




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Friday Fun: Make Life!

It will kill your CPU, but here's the classic Game of Life, … in JavaScript! It is possible, Your Honour!




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Emacs Autocomplete Bliss

You known that IntelliSense rots your brain, right? Well if you use Emacs, now you too can rot your brain, only better (everything is always better with Emacs). This is the most treasured snippet from my .emacs file. All it … Continue reading




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Hey, They Use TCP/IP Too!

Another good one from Bruce: SETI virii. Reminds me of the “negotiating with host” bit in Independence Day. Strange how the virus isn't evil when we're the good guys.




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Trackbacks Too Long

One thing about my current theme that was really annoying me was that my trackback URLs were pushing into the sidebar. Roller trackbacks are faily long, and there's no way I was going to go mucking about with the code … Continue reading




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Undocumentation

So it looks like I'm not the only one who's a bit annoyed about crappy API documentation. Even Microsoft can't get it right. And I'm not surprised. How many Microsoft developers have been on a creative writing course? Something to … Continue reading




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Slicing and Dicing

Back to the doctor today, I had to get a mole removed. They can't enough of me. The worst thing about minor surgery is the fact that you are conscious. Of course, the drugs are great and work really well … Continue reading




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Friday Fun: Wolfram Warbles

An important and serious contribution to the advancement of the mathematical sciences. A new kind of ringtone!




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Make a Stand

So this weekend myself and the family, big culchies that we are, are off to the Dundrum Town Center (pathetic flash site – hello guys, HTML please) for a gawk. This is Ireland's latest and greatest “mall”, which includes a … Continue reading




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