Happy Friday Video: Bushisms

Ahhh, Bush. We’ll celebrate when your gone miss you.

Happy Friday Video: Call of Duty, World at War

Holy crap, holy crap, holy super duper crap!!

Attention Call of Duty 4 addicts, they just announced a new addition to the Call of Duty franchise. The release is slated for this December.

Firefox 3, bitch.

As you may already know, Firefox 3 has launched TODAY. You know the drill: download it, install it, and test your webpages to see if they still look the way you wanted.

You can download the new Firefox browser here: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-rc.html

isolate it, then put it together

When brainstorming a web project, everyone has theories (and everyone thinks their theories will work). When trying to figure out how to develop an intense complex application, try  and isolate your them by creating prototypes. As it progresses, start slowly piecing them together so they’ll all get along.

There have been plenty of times where I swore something would come out the way I intended. I roll around an idea in my head for hours, confident that once I start my code it will all work out perfectly. I usually get most of the best work when I’m trying to go to sleep. I visualize how I want something to run and see what I can do to improve on what I already (physically; in my code) have.

By trying to create your version of what you think may work, isolate your theory by creating simplified prototype. This can be fairly simple if you break apart your ideas carefully.

Once all is said and done, stitch your code together and watch your ideas come to life.

Happy Friday Video: Friday the 13th

I thought I’d take you waaaay back in honor of today.

what am I?

People often have to search within to find me. However, it’s not that simple. Although I have few values, a decision can determine very different occurrences.

Happy Friday Video: attention marketers

youtube suggests

Did anyone notice that now the youtube search box has suggestions? Ever since Google introduced way back when, web developers are jumping at the opportunity to put it to good use. I commend youtube for adding the suggest feature to their site. Don’t you think they could have done it a lot earlier? Better late than never I guess. Big-up to AJAX beeotch!

UPDATE: Apparently this works on Firefox (if you have Google suggest added to your toolbar). Now I’m not really sure if it’s youtube or if the Google suggest is taking over their input box. Either way, youtube should take notice and add this feature to their site. That’d be sweet.

this post is about nothing

Nothing is a very important concept in programming.

Nothing is just as important as something because it is the absence of something. When something is equal to nothing, would you still consider it as something? When writing a program, you may have to write a typical if-else logical block that checks for nothing. For example:

If thisPostText = “” Then
Read = True
Else
Read = False
End If

The interesting thing about nothing, is that it can be described in many ways.
For example:

• null
• Nothing
• “”
• False
• 0

The best thing about nothing is that it doesn’t really exist. However, logically, it’s always there; just like this post.