Ramble On

And no, I don’t mean The Onion - which would have been far more entertaining.
Through Joi Ito’s blog I have recently become aware of the phrase “Yak Shaving.” Joi wrote about it in 2005, here’s WikiPedia’s take - and here’s an etymology from Alexandra Samuel.
When I first read Joi’s blog. [...]

Thanks to a couple of line changes in the wpLicense plugin - namely after line 384 - adding:
add_action(’atom10_head’, ‘cc_atom_head’);
and because of what is likely an output buffering issue somewhere - I had to change line 84 from:
link rel=”license” type=”text/html” href=”‘.licenseUri().’”
to:
link rel=”license” type=”text/html” href=”‘.get_option(’cc_content_license_uri’).’”
(yes, I need to debug this - it’s kind of a hack)
I now [...]

This isn’t quite on the scale of Linden Labs opening the sim code (actually, I’d be far more in favor of them packaging it up so that you could run your own sim) - but I’ll be damned - they open-sourced the client
That will certainly reverberate across the 2nd life and other 3D virtual world [...]

Articles like this one from the ADC reference library (I subscribe to the feed) - make me so completely happy that I’m not doing desktop programming anymore (I never have done it on the Macintosh, Win32 was enough).
If you receive this return value from AuthorizationCreateFromExternalForm it means that the AuthorizationRef from which the AuthorizationExternalForm was [...]

For years, it’s been the conventional wisdom in userid/password based authentication systems that the system provide the same error message for an invalid userid and/or invalid password. The idea being that you don’t want to let on to the “bad guys” that they guessed a valid userid and then proceed to repeatedly try [...]