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JL235

Java Syntax
4th March 2012

It isn't Java.
But if I run it as JavaScript, I get:
[code]
TypeError: Property 'job' of object #<Object> is not a function
[/code]
The problem is with this line:
[code]console.log("Hi, I work as a "+this.job());[/code]
You are calling 'job()', but *snip*

JL235

Win8 Preview
4th March 2012

Yup, and I've just found it. Mouse to bottom right corner -> up and click on settings -> then 'more PC settings'.
It has more options, but is more ugly then the first Metro control panel they built (although that one often ignored the mouse clicks).
Howe*snip*

JL235

Win8 Preview
4th March 2012

It's also really annoying that they put the IE 10 icon where the start menu used to be, so you accidentally click on it all the time.
Bottom left start corner also used to always switch between desktop and metro, so you knew it would always take you from *snip*

JL235

Win8 Preview
4th March 2012

I've just updated Win 8 on my laptop, and I actually don't like the new version as much as the first. It has more stuff, but lots of it seems more hidden, and less intuitive.
Plus I'm having to re-learn lots of the shortcuts, and they have removed the lef*snip*

JL235

Win8 Preview
3rd March 2012

Yeah, the missing start menu is quite a shock. However I find it more useful.
There is a term in HCI known as 'milliseconds matters', where it relates how many milliseconds it takes to do something. Studies have shown bigger buttons lower the amount of ti*snip*

JL235

Coding With Friends (coming soon from Zynga!!)
2nd March 2012

Knowing one programmer in real life, that you can work with, is worth dozens of online contacts.
My biggest recommendation for any programmer looking to network is to do it in real life, as well as online.

JL235

A Prolog Adventure
24th February 2012

this is a program for an entire (small) text adventure program in Prolog, I&rsquo;m amazed at how short and simple it is: Linkage

JL235

Spare's Engagement
24th February 2012

Congrats!

JL235

Learning WebDev
20th February 2012

This is like asking "should I learn C++, C# and Java for building desktop apps?". It depends on what you are building.
If you want to build a blog, then you can just use Wordpress, and you only need to know a tiny amount of PHP to do this (most of which y*snip*

JL235

I drew another background
20th February 2012

Another day, another picture. It's another one I started ages ago:
(Image.jpg)
I was thinking this could be near the beginning, giving you the first visual sign that you are in space.
Lots of things could be improved, the perspective seems a little of*snip*

JL235

I drew a background
18th February 2012

More drawing for the on-going RPG that I am (very) slowly building. This time it's a background:
(Image.jpg)
I think the floor is too long, but other then that, I'm pretty happy with this. Usually I follow an existing picture pretty closely; trying to *snip*

JL235

Rant Ahoy : Windows 8 Logo
18th February 2012

I don't get all the hate around the new logo. None of the previous Windows logos were that great; most look worse. I also won't be buying Windows 8 based on it's logo.
Sure it's not amazing, but at least it fits with the new Metro design (which is importa*snip*

JL235

vs PHP
17th February 2012

I've been hit a second time by this!
On Play My Code we have that the Google bot tries to setup games for playing, and the JS crashes. So we just disable the setup code for web crawlers.
After the last release, this has mysteriously stopped working. Turn*snip*

JL235

Clues You're Getting Old..
17th February 2012

The original 8" floppy disks were quite flexible, and they all had a disc inside.

JL235

BBC Basic 2.0?
15th February 2012

To clarify, the BBC project is not a hoax, at all.

JL235

BBC Basic 2.0?
15th February 2012

Raspberry Pi today claimed it's a hoax, and that the project the BBC is working on is not this.
Simply not true.

JL235

Auto = Nought?
14th February 2012

Personally I would prefer that the default theme was nicer, with less customization for special events, then the ability to build custom themes.

JL235

BBC Basic 2.0?
14th February 2012

It's also not web based, it's Eclipse based!

JL235

BBC Basic 2.0?
14th February 2012

I was told it uses JavaScript. They were teaching this at the conference-teaching thing I went to at the weekend, but I didn't get to see it.
Both of the BBC devs I met already knew about PMC, and loved it.

JL235

Auto = Nought?
14th February 2012

People will notice, because it'll render in an odd way. Tables don't get rendered until all HTML has been parsed.

JL235

Auto = Nought?
14th February 2012

I build things pretty quickly using divs and CSS. Using tables would probably slow me down, not speed me up.
CSS IS quirky, and it's layouts are unexpected. Once your in the CSS mindset, you do start to know how things need to be laid out and styled in or*snip*

JL235

File integrity
13th February 2012

MD5 hash would be the way to go; it's what everyone uses. I would pre-hash the files, and then use this stored value when you send them, so you only ever have to hash once (as it can be expensive).
I wouldn't worry about hashing being weak, in terms of se*snip*

JL235

Teaching!
11th February 2012

Awesome! I'd have loved something like this when I was growing up.
Not only were there tonnes of different programming things to go through, it all ranged from the new BBC coding platform (which I didn't get to see), to building Android apps, .NET develop*snip*

JL235

Teaching!
11th February 2012

I&rsquo;ve spent the day teaching kids at the Hack to the Future; so tiring ...

JL235

PHP threading?
11th February 2012

[quote=Afr0]Does PHP have any support at all for concurrency?[/quote]
No. There is no support for threads, or anything similar. It can be simulated creating a new PHP process which runs the PHP code you are running.
[quote=Stealth]Requests are concurrent*snip*
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