Another one has succumbed to the power of Wordpress. Andy started blogging on Wordpress yesterday, almost a week after Jay started blogging.
His two most recent posts are about shoes.
Anyways, welcome to Wordpress and blogging, Andy. Keep it up!
Jay, one of the co-founders of this website, is up on Wordpress. Check out his new blog.
Keep up the blogging Jay, can’t let the content go stale.
Apparently, Yahoo! Finance picked up my steak story from the Wall Street Journal. Now you can read the article in more than one location. haha
Yesterday, I posted that there would be some exciting news coming out, and that it related directly to this blog.
Without further ado, I give you an article about Brian Wong and USDA Prime beef at Costco.
“How in the world!?!” you ask. Again, it all goes to this blog.
So here’s the story:
Read more…
Barring any craziness, or an unexpected turn of events, I’ve got some exciting news to share tomorrow.
For those rumor mongers among you, we’re not pregnant. But it’s something pretty exciting, and it directly relates to this blog. I’ll keep you posted.
As I mentioned a few months ago, I updated my website to a new theme. An unfortunate consequence of doing that was that it put these ugly borders around all my smilies:
Frankly, it made them look like they were in prison. What to do? Take a dive into the code of course!
This was actually made easier by a nifty little utility called Firebug. It’s billed as a tool for web development, so in this instance, it definitely served it’s purpose.
I right-clicked on a smiley chose “Inspect Element” from the menu, and that brought up a window that showed me that the style of this image was dictated by the style.css file, and the img selector. It had a border of 1 pixel all around:
img {
border:1px solid #000000;
}
Firebug also showed me the code that was used to display the smiley:
<img class="wp-smiley" alt=":-)" src=.../>
Ah ha! They’re all tagged with the CSS class “wp-smiley”. That’s great because it means I could customize the CSS to remove the border.
So I hopped into the style.css file and added a new bit of code:
img.wp-smiley{
border:0px;
}
That means that for each img tag with the wp-smiley class, the border should be zero pixels.
And there you have it. Smiley’s without borders! 
Happy coding!
In keeping with my post about a month ago on Learning C#, I figured I’d post my programmer personality type.
My programmer personality type is:
DHSB
You’re a Doer.
You are very quick at getting tasks done. You believe the outcome is the most important part of a task and the faster you can reach that outcome the better. After all, time is money.
You like coding at a High level.
The world is made up of objects and components, you should create your programs in the same way.
You work best in a Solo situation.
The best way to program is by yourself. There’s no communication problems, you know every part of the code allowing you to write the best programs possible.
You are a liBeral programmer.
Programming is a complex task and you should use white space and comments as freely as possible to help simplify the task. We’re not writing on paper anymore so we can take up as much room as we need.
I’m not entirely sure that this is always true, but it generally seems pretty accurate. For example, I’m not always sure that I’m a Liberal programmer. Sometimes the Doer in me conflicts with the Liberal in me, and the urgency of getting something done requires that I don’t provide copious amounts of white space or comments. I gotta get it done, so those get left out.But in general, I’d say this is pretty accurate. If I have all the time in the world, and the project at hand is merely for my own pleasure, I’d say I’m a DHSB.
In life, as in programming, I’m a Doer. Life and work are about tasks. “Get ‘er done” and I can move on.
In college, I only learned Object Oriented Programming (OOP), unlike my Computer Science minded colleagues who were busy learning esoteric things like Assembly and Scheme. I wasn’t really exposed to any other programming paradigms, except for things like CSS, HTML, and SQL, which are declarative languages. So in this regard, I’m definitely a High level coder.
I’ve never programmed in the context of a team–all of my programming has been a solo venture, so it’s definitely true that I work best in a Solo situation.
That about covers it. What about you?
Fortunately, it only took me about 15 minutes to update the links I had to Lynn’s web page.
For historical purposes, I noted on each of those posts that they were updated today. Let me know if I missed any.
I’m not sure to what we owe the pleasure, but Lynn has posted a new slideshow from our wedding on his blog. Maybe it was an updated slideshow to go with the new blog, or maybe it was just because he had photos of us lying around, or maybe it’s because he wanted to show off his SlideShowPro skills. In either case, it’s a win for us, and a very nice slideshow.
It’s simply amazing to me how a bit of music added to pictures gives such a new dimension to them. It makes them that much more real, tangible, and memorable.
Thanks, Lynn!
If you’ve read my blog for any reasonable length of time (say greater than a month or two), you’ve heard me mention our wedding photographer, Lynn, before. Well, he has a new blog and domain name called I am LKC. I love the new layout, and if you look carefully in the sidebars, you’ll notice that Charlene and I are featured rather frequently. I wouldn’t say prominently as it’s kinda subtle, but we do show up three times. Technically, Charlene shows up three times. One of the pictures is of her and her bridesmaids, so I don’t show up in that one. But it’s cool.
I’m flattered we showed up at all.
The one major bummer is that since he migrated his blog to the new domain name, it broke all my old links to our engagement, wedding, and wedding slideshows that Lynn posted. I guess I’ll either have to go back and fix them, or maybe Lynn can get them redirected. (Please let it be the latter.) They currently just redirect to his main page, not the actual posts themselves.
The new layout is totally Lynn, so he definitely hired the right guy to do it. Congrats, Lynn.