
Suggestions for Improving digg.com
Adam Scheinberg, November 9, 2006
PHP Lesson 2: Behind the Scenes of Threading
Adam Scheinberg, November 8, 2006
firsttube.com gets threads
Adam Scheinberg, November 7, 2006
Video Vault (11/07/2006)
Adam Scheinberg, November 7, 2006
Links 11/06/2006
Adam Scheinberg, November 6, 2006
Father Demonstrates That He Is Complete Douche Bag
Adam Scheinberg, November 6, 2006
Just when you think that no one could be a bigger douche bag than Ted Haggard, along comes Dan Hinkle to prove you wrong. Here's the gist of it: Dan Hinkle is the commissioner of a Fairfax, VA football league. His son plays for one of the teams, the South County Raptors. One day, head coach James Owens, pays Dan Hinkle's son Scott on offense instead of defense, and is instantly fired. Turns out Hinkle had a rule: his son plays every minute of every game all season or the league goes bye bye. And, sure enough, he stood by his word. He immediately disbanded the league right before the championship leaving almost 4000 12-14 year olds with no post-season whatsoever. Everything just went - BOOM! - and went away. First off, if I were a 12-14 year old in Fairfax playing for this league, I'd get my buddies together to beat the @!#% out of little Scott Hinkle. That poor kid - his father should know better. How will his friends look at him now that they know that when he didn't get his playtime, his daddy pulled the plug on the entire league. What a sad sack. Sadly...
A Final Word on the Firefox Fiasco
Adam Scheinberg, November 5, 2006
So the Mozilla develpers - particularly the Firefox ones - appear to have adopted this stance: We are going to bring the XML/RSS easy-subscribe feature to a new, wider group who isn't demanding it yet, with no planned course of action for the people who are currently using it and came to rely upon it. Furthermore, we will leave them with no official way to reproduce the behavior which has been present now in our brower for years. In short, when the Mozilla team mankes a decison, it's final, and it appears that they are looking to expand their userbase, even at the expense of the most dedicated users now. So if you choose to have the search engine of your website return RSS for external apps but styled XML for a browser, turns out -- you can't. It's been days since I posted on this site about this; the goal was to make sure my new post was not overly dramatic. But here goes: I am now going to be suggesting that Windows users I support use IE7. Why? Because IE7 is a nice upgrade. It supports most of the features that I think are necessary in a browser....
More on Firefox
Adam Scheinberg, November 2, 2006
You're Killing Me, Firefox
Adam Scheinberg, November 2, 2006
As I've said before, I've been a user of Firefox (albeit, by different names), since 0.2 (possibly 0.1). I've learned to love it. I love my core extensions, I love the tabs and the general feel. I have really enjoyed using Firefox. As I've also detailed before, I have some problems with Firefox. In particular, a certain Firefox bug has pissed me off so much, not because of the bug, but rather, the fact that the Mozilla devs appear/appeared to be perfectly content with their decision, despite the arguments. I have blown off Firefox at home for the also-Gecko-based Camino. I am seriously considering blowing off Firefox at work for Opera. But this is the real reason. It's not just their XML arrogance. It's this: Firefox is a mess when it comes to memory. Click on the image for a full size view Let's break it down: Firefox allows developers to write extensions that utilize XUL, which means memory leaks could come from poorly written extensions. But as a user, my response is: I don't care. If writing extensions can cause a WEB BROWSER to eat up over 1/2GB of memory, you've got a problem! Fix chrome! Fix XUL! Limit...
What Is Your Blog Worth?
Adam Scheinberg, November 1, 2006
My blog is worth $564.54.
How much is your blog worth?