When you program a task for yourself, you get to add all the features you can imagine. When you use someone else’s software, you get the features they imagined. Sometimes, the differences can be pleasantsurprises.
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Getting Lazy in My Old Age
I’ve been a progammer for too many years to count, and I’ve always been one to roll my own solutions to problems, so why am I using a public blogging service instead of diving into Perl and making my own? I have actually done it before. Back in the early days of the web, when… Continue reading Getting Lazy in My Old Age
Naming of Names
I went into a restaurant and put my name on the waiting list, watching closely what she wrote down. Amazing, she spelled it correctly. Did you know that easily a third of the times I give my first name, people will spell it H E N E R Y. Now, this has been going on… Continue reading Naming of Names