I keep reading that the computing platform for the younger generation is the mobile phone. For me and my generation, it’s the personal computer. I see the mobile phone mostly as an annoyance. I loathe texting, I don’t really care for voice mail, and I certainly don’t want to talk on the phone unless I [...]
Entries from October 2006
Trying to grok the mobile phone generation
October 12th, 2006 · 4 Comments
Use contants instead of string literals
October 11th, 2006 · 3 Comments
One practice that I internalized a long time ago but that I still see a lot of experienced developers ignore is habitual . Most applications have common strings that are used in a number of places. These should pretty much always be stored in constants (however your language of choice implements them) rather than appearing [...]
Movable Type and Atom feed upgraded
October 7th, 2006 · 1 Comment
This morning I actually took the time to update Movable Type to version 3.33 and I updated the template for the Atom feed from version 0.3 to version 1.0 (a long overdue change).
I’m also getting rid of the RSS 1.0 feed (found at /index.rdf) and soon I’ll probably move the Atom feed to /index.xml and [...]
More on free upgrades and social media
October 6th, 2006 · No Comments
Rebecca Blood has some interesting points to add to my post about how operational upgrades work at airlines (and how the Internet works at disseminating information). She also has some flattering things to say about me, but you can ignore that part since you probably have your own opinion about how wonderful (or horrible) I [...]
Getting free upgrades on airlines
October 3rd, 2006 · 1 Comment
Today I saw a pointer to a forum posting at flyertalk.com from DullesJason, a former gate agent for United Airlines. In it he explains how gate agents for United are supposed to assign “operational upgrades,” otherwise known among passengers as getting bumped to first class. There’s a lot of lore about the best way to [...]