Meeting Bingo Game
This one is a hilarious piece I found on the Web. If you really like it, you have to wonder — am I still doing too much techie stuff and too little management? Ever been in a mind-numbing meeting with...
View ArticleGeeks
I have been doing a bit of geeky stuff lately — writing WordPress plugins. Okay, it is because I’m suffering from a terrible writer’s block. You see, I’m supposed to be working on my next book. I...
View ArticleHow to save a string to a local file in PHP?
This post is the second one in my geek series. While programming my Theme Tweaker, I came across this problem. I had a string on my server in my php program (the tweaked stylesheet, in fact), and I...
View ArticleZeros and Ones
Computers are notorious for their infuriatingly literal obedience. I am sure anyone who has ever worked with a computer has come across the lack of empathy on its part — it follows our instructions to...
View ArticleParadigms All the Way
Paradigms permeate almost all aspects of computing. Some of these paradigms are natural. For instance, it is natural to talk about an image or a song when we actually mean a JPEG or an MP3 file. File...
View ArticleMagic of Object Oriented Languages
Nowhere is the dominance of paradigms more obvious than in object oriented languages. Just take a look at the words that we use to describe some their features: polymorphism, inheritance, virtual,...
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Blank Screen after Hibernate/Sleep?
Okay, the short answer, increase your virtual memory to more than the size of your physical memory. Long version now. Recently, I had this problem with my PC that it wouldn’t wake up from hibernation...
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