Author Archives: David Terrell

Recursion considered harmful

Posted on December 20, 2006 by David Terrell

Well, in this case it was real bad. Here’s a tip: When using the “RSS widget” in WordPress, do not point it to any web-based feed. While moving files around, I managed to make the Gallery RSS feed completely nonexistant, … Continue reading →

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The UnSuggester

Posted on December 8, 2006 by David Terrell

Brad DeLong links to LibraryThing’s UnSuggester. Put a book you liked, and it’ll tell you what books you probably want to avoid. Sample search: If you liked Winning, by Jack Welch, you’ll probably hate Watership Down, The Princess Bride, stuff … Continue reading →

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Web-based Feed Readers

Posted on December 6, 2006 by David Terrell

To be able to tote subscription/read status between machines and OSes, I’ve switched (mostly) from using a desktop feed aggregator to using the web-based ones. So far, I haven’t found one I’m really happy with. Bloglines: The good: single-key navigation … Continue reading →

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Theo's First snow day

Posted on December 1, 2006 by David Terrell

Whoot! Figures I’d have to work.

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WordPress, ETag, Last-Modified

Posted on November 23, 2006 by David Terrell

WordPress has some pretty crappy code buried in it… the curse of PHP. I can’t complain too much because it’s still a very robust platform with a good community and the best anti-spam plugin. That having been said, WordPress has … Continue reading →

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Sandbox Skins

Posted on November 22, 2006 by David Terrell

Keith is leaping into the breach with Sandbox. Welcome. Two tips: The first is that you can use CSS to do the header image without altering the base theme files. The second is that when you do edit your custom … Continue reading →

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Exchange students

Posted on November 16, 2006 by David Terrell

I’ve known some in my time… some of which were hosted by people who I thought had no business hosting. But trust me, all of that is forgiven after reading about the strange adventure of Michel Gromek, Polish exchange student: … Continue reading →

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DVOA chart

Posted on November 8, 2006 by David Terrell

For those of you into football stats, the killer stat is DVOA (and its friends, VOA, DPAR, PAR, and DAVE). It’s nice to be able to look at DVOA on a graphical basis, so I cranked out some javascript using … Continue reading →

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All Atom, All the time

Posted on November 3, 2006 by David Terrell

RSS is a crappy spec, so this blog is now 100% atom. And instead of serving up the same feed on a half dozen different URLs, I’m now redirecting all the feeds to /feed/atom. Dang ole feeds.

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boost::bind makes my brain hurt

Posted on October 24, 2006 by David Terrell

why? typedef … K; typedef std::map<k , HANDLE> map_type; map_type map_; … std::for_each(map_.begin(), map_.end(), boost::bind(&map_type::value_type::second, _1)); // this works std::for_each(map_.begin(), map_.end(), boost::bind(WSACloseEvent, boost::bind(&map_type::value_type::second, _1))); // this barfs inside boost::bind … incomplete type

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