It's been a while since I've made an actual post, but I felt the urge. I do alot of programming (many different languages), so after I read this interview I thought i'd share it.

Using session variables instead of cookies?! Awesome.

So I saw this page which gives a list of 15 Exercises for Learning a new Programming Language. I thought, this could also be a good way to compare different languages. In that spirit I'm going to do just that and try to complete the list in different popular languages. To start with I will do them in C# and Java.

As it turns out I'm much less familiar with C# than Java so it will also be a learning experience as the original article had intended. You can see the progress in Programming.

This guy seems to have the right idea on why people would ever choose open source.

Someone has already done the leg work for the question I know everyone had. How many fucks are in the code on the web? You can find out here.

Slashdot has the skinny on Google Code Search which Google just released. Here's a direct link to the cnet story.

Here's a cool report from Gina Trapani over at lifehacker about Yahoo! Open Hack Day '06. It's pretty interesting. You could say Yahoo! Open Hack Day is like Google Code Jam.

You can do this by going to your
C:Documents and SettingsUser NameApplication DataMozillaFirefoxProfiles directory. From there it might be either xxxxxxx.defaultchrome or default.xxxchrome. Create/edit the userChrome.css file, then add to it the following code:

/* Make menus disapear */menubar > menu{	display: none !important;}

You can also just hide specific menu items which you can do using the following code:

/* Hide menu Name */menulabel="Name" {	display: none !important;}

I have been working on, in the last couple weeks, a Java based version of the todo app I created a year ago in Cold Fusion. So far it is still in initial proto phase, i.e. I'm still hobbling together code just so a user can login and see a list of items from their todo list. It is an open source project as soon as im satisfied with a beta version I'll release the source.

One last bit about George W. Bush. Alright, so maybe I'm a little harsh to Bush. I don't hate him, like many other anti-bush people, but then again there's nothing that I like about him either. Bush and his administration have divided this country literally in half; alienated the black community, done nothing but hurt civil rights, health care, social security, and diluted the separation of church and state. I wouldn't use Fahrenheit 911 as propaganda against him though. I will be rooting for John Kerry and John Edwards this November. That is of course if Homeland Security don't manage to delay the elections.

I've been reading The Age of Spiritual Machines by Ray Kurzweil. It's a very interesting read. He has some interesting theories about Order and Chaos, The law of Increasing Returns, and evolutions next step into the age of machines. It's a definite read if your interested in what might happen in the 21st century.