July 5th, 2010
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Google latitude now gives you the option of enabling ‘history’ – you can enable it here.
It’s kind of neat, and I can see it being somewhat fun to use if you go on long trips. I gave it a little test run while I was on the train back to Toronto the other day – and although I was only using my iPod Touch with WiFi tracking, it was pretty decent as far as being able to keep me pin-pointed as to where I was.
And yes, you get the option to delete parts – or all of your history. (the lack of tracking between brantford and burlington is due to the lack of wifi in the open country side).
July 1st, 2010
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If you’re looking for Triviosity you can find it here: http://triviosity.com/ – if you’re looking for news about Triviosity you can find it here: http://blog.triviosity.com/ – I won’t be talking about it here anymore unless there’s something super nerdy that I just have to talk about.
June 21st, 2010
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Fun things like a common background, task switcher and app folders/groups.
June 1st, 2010
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I was asked a strange question today. “What’s return !! $row; do?” And I had never really been witness to the syntax of the double-not ‘!!’ because really, to me, it’s a bit strange and contradictory for the coding styles I’m used to. So I looked it up a bit more to see if it was actually faster than proper type casting with (bool)$row in php. Nobody had any real results. I ran a quick test and sure enough using !! is faster… for arrays. Other than that, the time is so close it’s insignificant.
Here’s the quick ‘n dirty results:
Time testing (bool) vs. !! conversions – 1,000,000 interations
converted array with (bool) done in 1.06559991837 seconds.
converted array with !! done in 0.534655094147 seconds.
converted ” with (bool) done in 0.572640895844 seconds.
converted ” with !! done in 0.523654937744 seconds.
converted (int) with (bool) done in 0.49324798584 seconds.
converted (int) with !! done in 0.5086581707 seconds.
converted object with (bool) done in 0.564023017883 seconds.
converted object with !! done in 0.556074857712 seconds.
I had to do one million iterations just so the times would add up to something substantial. Really, the difference is only faster if you happen to want to get a quick ‘true or false’ from an array. The rest are so insignificant it’s not worth the confusion of a double-not. Personally, I’d rather see an actual check of $row to see if it contains something useful before returning true or false just based on it being set. But that’s just me.
May 23rd, 2010
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I apologize for this off-topic rant, but it’s been sitting on my mind for a little while…
The best part of using all these social plugins on a site as small as mine is how pathetic it makes the site look. I try not to pollute everything with ‘like this’, ‘share that’, ‘spam your friends!’ and because of my simplistic approach, I never really benefit from any of these things.
But then again, I hardly see any interaction from my own friends with these little plugins on any site, not just mine. So I’m pretty sure 80 percent don’t know what they do. Then again, it’s probably more like 90/10. 80/20 is such a stupid generalization. 90 percent don’t know. of the 10 percent that do, 90 percent don’t care, leaving the one percent that’ll actually use it. Go team.
It seems to me as though all the things that “get popular” with these social plugins are ones that do something stupid (like an ascii smiley face, or “like this page to see these pictures!”) and basically, they force users to send it viral, even though it’s of no use to anybody and it’s not even good. 90% of the people have to be forced. 10% know better.
I’m going to force myself to change my approach a bit and see if these pressure tactics work for the better. I mean, I hate treating people like sheep, but if you’re going to act like sheep and only go where you’re herded to, what else is a guy supposed to do?
Here comes the dirty stuff!
Oh, and don’t forget to show some love by hitting the ol’ [recommend] button! It’s over there —->
