I bought Palm TX recently and I’m still in that period of time when you install new stuff and discover what’s out there to try. On my old Palm V I loved a text entry application Fitaly. I just had to have it on my new Palm as well.
How to delete AppSlipRotate.prc and StatusBarLib.prc if you’re stuck in a reset loop
October 3rd, 2007Date formatting in Smarty
September 26th, 2007If you use the so called, German date format (day of month. month. year) you may have wondered how to achieve it with Smarty – without the leading zeroes for month.
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How to report messages to user
September 26th, 2007In the course of executing a program you need to report errors / success messages to the user. But you don’t want to mix your code with HTML, right? (A quick explanation on separating presentation from business / data logic.)
So here’s what I use:
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Great tool for sharing pieces of code
September 26th, 2007Ever needed to send someone a piece of code in an e-mail to illustrate your thinking?
Pastebin does just that. You paste your code, choose what language you use to get the right syntax highlighting and post it.
Then your colleague makes his changes and posts them back. With one click you can see his version, your version and the difference, just like in this example:
eXtreme Programming eXplained: Embrace Change
March 2nd, 2007Delivery delays, changes in specification that should have been known beforehand, bad and outdated documentation, team-mates who cause more damage than good.
These things (among many others) make programming difficult to like.
