Category Archives: Programming

Engineers, if they were like bad programmers

…Hey guys, look! I made the black hole generator we were theorizing yesterday! See? I just have to press this button and This comes from a comment someone made on Slashdot earlier today. The idea is that bad programmers sometimes come up with clever ideas, often without thinking through the consequences.  (Alternatively, good programmers sometimes… Read More »

PHP Slicehost API

A couple of days ago I added a bunch of features to my Slicehost API interface class (for PHP).  Most of you are about to say “Uh, what’s Slicehost?”  Click here.  (They’re the server hosting company I use.  If you sign up, please use this referral link or put “heron@xnapid.com” as the referrer so I… Read More »

Project Euler

I like Project Euler.  If you’ve never heard of it, it’s a website with a few hundred math/programming puzzles to solve, and it keeps track of which ones you’ve solved, who else has solved them, etc etc. Yesterday, I was working on solving one of the problems.  The way you know you’ve solved it is… Read More »