Stuff you can’t live without
After watching the train wreck served up on The Apprentice tonight, I have to ask if any of these contestants watched any of the previous shows. Let’s start with the obvious, you never want to be the first project manager. Statistically your odds aren’t very good. The first people fired are almost always the PMs.
Bill Humpries at A List Apart wrote a short article on using mod_rewrite to create nice URLs. This is some highly useful information. You can see how I use the technique at this site to change ugly URLs like http://www.williamfrantz.com/bin/wp/index.php?article=50 into pretty URLs like http://williamfrantz.com/wp/61.
Of course my .htaccess file is pretty ugly and I don’t understand half the regular expressions and RewriteRules in there, but it works nicely.
I thought this ad was cute when I first saw it. However, the second time it popped up on my web browser I realized something wasn’t quite right.
Dice is a website for job postings. They ran this ad on SourceForge looking for Java programmers who are on the market. The thing is, if you actually read the code, the else clause doesn’t make sense. OK sure, if myjob is boring then go look for a new job, but the else clause says suck it up. That effectively states, if your job is not boring then suck it up, which seems odd.