There's quite a bit of angst on the internet about Digital Rights Management functionality in the HTML5 specification: hsivonen.fi/eme/ ameliaandersdotter.eu/2013/10/13/drmeme-html5-american-thing brendaneich.com/2013/10/the-bridge-of-khazad-drm I think some of the outrage could have been avoided with a different sales pitch... Wouldn't it be…
I'm currently working under an unexpected constraint: Hungarian notation for variable names in my database code. Sure, I've written many lines of solid and readable code using Hungarian notation. VB6, VBA, and tSQL...it was previously company-standard for all DB code (and the data type prefixes were helpful in the…
I recently had a fun conversation with some new acquaintances. It started when one person said they worked at a photography studio and we launched into a comparison between Adobe Photoshop and the Gimp. From there, a few more open-source software topics were covered with the other person who worked…
I've just received a new work machine. I'm now faced with configuring and checking functionality in 3 different versions of Visual Studio. "Why would you need 3 versions of Visual Studio?", I hear you asking. Well, bear with me... Visual Studio 2008, needed for SQL-Server Integration Services (SSIS) development on…
I put down some money and finally switched on a VPS instance of my very own. Previously, I had played with a free-trial VPS and used it to borrow the BBC for a few hours. The setup for that operation was accomplished by following a blog post walk through. This…