http://darrylclarke.com Random musings from a jaded coder who just needs a hug. Mon, 21 May 2012 01:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://darrylclarke.com/2012/04/29/its-so-meta/ http://darrylclarke.com/2012/04/29/its-so-meta/#comments Sun, 29 Apr 2012 17:03:56 +0000 Darryl Clarke http://darrylclarke.com/?p=803 It’s time for yet another meta post. I’ve redesigned my blog. It’s here, it’s new. It’s tidy. It’s the first phase of change that you may or may not notice. As it stands right now, I’ve not even looked at it in IE, so I doubt it works. But it’s got some awesome IE Chrome [...]]]> http://darrylclarke.com/2012/04/29/its-so-meta/feed/ 0 http://darrylclarke.com/2012/01/05/the-firefox-switch-back/ http://darrylclarke.com/2012/01/05/the-firefox-switch-back/#comments Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:11:00 +0000 Darryl Clarke http://darrylclarke.com/?p=720 Early in 2011 I switched from Firefox to Google Chrome. Just before the end of 2011 I switched back. I switched back because I had ignored Firefox for so long, I was almost damned sure that they should have fixed a few issues I had in the 3.1-3.6 releases. And sure enough, they have. In [...]]]> http://darrylclarke.com/2012/01/05/the-firefox-switch-back/feed/ 0 http://darrylclarke.com/2011/10/06/i-dislike-like-gates-so-much/ http://darrylclarke.com/2011/10/06/i-dislike-like-gates-so-much/#comments Thu, 06 Oct 2011 18:42:39 +0000 Darryl Clarke http://darrylclarke.com/?p=683 I dislike a “like gate” so much, I’ve conditioned myself to do battle against them. Here’s what I do: Like the page. Go to my profile, remove the announcement that “Darryl Likes [insert like-gate here]“ Do what I need to on the page. Unlike the page. What is a “Like-Gate”? A like-gate is effectively a [...]]]> http://darrylclarke.com/2011/10/06/i-dislike-like-gates-so-much/feed/ 0 http://darrylclarke.com/2011/09/22/facebook-timeline-isnt-new-f8/ http://darrylclarke.com/2011/09/22/facebook-timeline-isnt-new-f8/#comments Fri, 23 Sep 2011 00:13:58 +0000 Darryl Clarke http://darrylclarke.com/?p=676 This timeline feature isn’t the first timeline that Facebook will have attempted to use. Once upon a time, at least 4 years ago, when you joined Facebook and added friends it always asked “How do you know this person?” and “When did you meet?” Those questions as well as many other little things within Facebook [...]]]> http://darrylclarke.com/2011/09/22/facebook-timeline-isnt-new-f8/feed/ 0 http://darrylclarke.com/2011/08/04/you-want-us-to-be-secure/ http://darrylclarke.com/2011/08/04/you-want-us-to-be-secure/#comments Thu, 04 Aug 2011 20:32:44 +0000 Darryl Clarke http://darrylclarke.com/?p=630 But you make it so complicated. From a technical standpoint, I understand how simple it is to create certificates for SSL/TLS and put them into configs and use ‘em. From a user standpoint, I can not understand the who/what/when/where/why as to the whole security industry and being so damn complicated. So many SSL providers out [...]]]> http://darrylclarke.com/2011/08/04/you-want-us-to-be-secure/feed/ 0 http://darrylclarke.com/2011/07/13/random-late-night-meta-post/ http://darrylclarke.com/2011/07/13/random-late-night-meta-post/#comments Wed, 13 Jul 2011 07:10:25 +0000 Darryl Clarke http://darrylclarke.com/?p=617 Recently it seems that every time I post here it’s because I started a new job or there was a new release of Ubuntu.  I decided to not post one at the beginning of June because it would be exactly the same as my previous post with the exception of a slightly different second paragraph [...]]]> http://darrylclarke.com/2011/07/13/random-late-night-meta-post/feed/ 0 http://darrylclarke.com/2011/02/26/the-ever-changing-wind/ http://darrylclarke.com/2011/02/26/the-ever-changing-wind/#comments Sat, 26 Feb 2011 16:43:11 +0000 Darryl Clarke http://darrylclarke.com/?p=598 It seems like not so long ago I mentioned how the things were changing. And guess what? They’re changing again.  On Monday I start a new job. It’s always a bittersweet feeling when you walk away from a job that had the potential to be awesome.  Maybe I just had my hopes set too high.  [...]]]> http://darrylclarke.com/2011/02/26/the-ever-changing-wind/feed/ 1 http://darrylclarke.com/2011/01/22/visualizing-data-is-fun-confusing-and-possibly-useless/ http://darrylclarke.com/2011/01/22/visualizing-data-is-fun-confusing-and-possibly-useless/#comments Sun, 23 Jan 2011 03:09:48 +0000 Darryl Clarke http://darrylclarke.com/?p=588 I created this little image (ok, it’s large) based on the players of Triviosity.  Each line represents a user, while each column represents a game played.  It’s kinda neat to see that the early joiners play a lot.  It’s also kind of neat to see that about every so often a user sticks around.  It’s [...]]]> http://darrylclarke.com/2011/01/22/visualizing-data-is-fun-confusing-and-possibly-useless/feed/ 0 http://darrylclarke.com/2011/01/18/html-5-logo-is-funny/ http://darrylclarke.com/2011/01/18/html-5-logo-is-funny/#comments Tue, 18 Jan 2011 16:55:28 +0000 Darryl Clarke http://darrylclarke.com/?p=584 I don’t think I’d ever seriously put this on a website.  Just sayin’…]]> http://darrylclarke.com/2011/01/18/html-5-logo-is-funny/feed/ 0 http://darrylclarke.com/2010/11/27/just-a-log/ http://darrylclarke.com/2010/11/27/just-a-log/#comments Sat, 27 Nov 2010 17:57:02 +0000 Darryl Clarke http://darrylclarke.com/?p=576 Applications, especially ones that run over and over again with zero persistancy (of the application itself) like a web app needs logging. It’s important to be able to log different types of messages to different places and fortunately Zend_Log is so extensible that it can log to almost anything you can think of. My typically [...]]]> http://darrylclarke.com/2010/11/27/just-a-log/feed/ 2