Archive for December, 2006

Code Critique: Duplicate Code within If-Else Statements

December 20th, 2006 Posted in Software Engineering | Comments »

I’ve been reviewing and documenting other peoples’ code lately, and I found some vexing patterns that came up constantly. Seeing in an if-else statement that the first (or last) few lines evaluated when the conditional is true match the first (or last) few lines evaluated when the conditional is false was a little bothersome. It […]

Blog Tag Game

December 18th, 2006 Posted in - blah - | 3 Comments »

Okay, David got me into this. The idea is to share five things about yourself that people may not know, then tag five bloggers so they can rinse, lather and repeat.
I was tagged by David Gagne, who was tagged by Speaking Freely, who was tagged by MarketingGuy, who was tagged by Aaron Shear. The game […]

Getting Around Without RedirectPermanent

December 13th, 2006 Posted in IT Administration | Comments »

It seemed that I would be unable to persuade an ISP technical support representative to change their server configuration, while talking with him at 4am. Setting up a 301 redirect between a domain with a www subdomain and a domain without a subdomain is pretty easy. I usually do something like the following when setting […]