Category Archives: Software Developer

My thoughts on the current craft of software development.

Poorly Implemented Combo Box

I was registering for an account at a local auction site (which shall remain nameless), the zip code combo box threw me off:

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Django and Google App Engine

In my continuing quest to become better than everybody else, I spent some time today learning Django (a Python webapp framework) and the Google App Engine.
I tried following the tutorials included in the Django Book for a while, but I’ve never taken too well with just typing up examples from a book, so I decided [...]

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Barcamp Manila

Upon the prodding of Mikong, I attended the recent Barcamp Manila held in Ortigas last Thursday. I wasn’t really sure what to expect, as I’ve never attended any such conference before, and I’ve never been particularly involved with the local developer community, but I said I’d go anyway, I figured it’d probably be fun.
The event [...]

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The Survey for People Who Make Websites

Blogged with the Flock Browser

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New Facebook

Am I the only one getting these random JavaScript alerts (obviously debugging messages!) on the new Facebook today?

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Google Code Jam 2008

I joined this year’s Google Code Jam.
It’s part of my characteristic competitiveness and arrogance that I actually imagined I had a chance at winning the contest. No such luck, see my results. I was eliminated in the second online round. That I managed to get there at all was surprising considering the level of difficulty.
I’m [...]

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Google Treasure Hunt

Google started a treasure hunt about a month ago, releasing four questions (one per week) that covered a range of computational topics. I actually joined the treasure hunt late, the 2nd question was already released by the time I got wind of it. The site says there are prizes to be won for the people [...]

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MTG Autocard Wordpress Plugin

I had been planning to do this for a while: it’s my first Wordpress Plugin! Over at Roy on Magic, I often have to write out decklists and such, so I wanted to have an autocard feature similar to the one used at MTGSalvation. After a quick five-minute search I couldn’t figure out how they [...]

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Job Hunting for Programmers

No, I’m not job hunting. But other people are, apparently. I got a comment on an old post I made about my job hunting days. Not only that, but the guy IM’d me asking to talk (I put my yahoo id on this site somewhere me). It’s a bit strange, but I figured, why not? [...]

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How to Solve Technical Problems

One of the qualities that I think make a really good software developer is the ability to solve difficult technical problems. Unless you’re the sort of software developer who just sells the same piece of software over and over again, at some point in time you’ll to need to find out how to implement some [...]

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