This is more for me to remember it, as I’m guessing everyone else knows about this already. If you have a web or FTP site that you need to link someone to, but that site requires a user name and password, you can embed that information in the url as such: http://userid:password@www.anywhere.com/ftp://userid:password@ftp.anywhere.com/
Author: Mark Boszko
The Early History of Smalltalk
Alan C. Kay’s The Early History of Smalltalk, courtesy Thomas Gagné. As I understand it, extensions to the C language were based on Smalltalk-80, to create the Objective-C language I’m learning right now.
Peasant’s Quest
Yay! I just finished Peasant’s Quest! It’s an awesome parody of the original King’s Quest, and it’s ilk. (And no, I most certainly did not get lots of hints from the walkthrough. Hunh-uh! How dare you think that! 😉 )
Censored
Just testing my new self-censoring, to make my site a tiny bit more safe for my parents. 😛 The FCC’s (and George Carlin’s) seven dirty words are thus: shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits. I’ve also made it a no-no to discuss God or his son, Jesus, though you can talk about gods,…
Bitwise Operators?
So, I’m working through Programming in Objective-C, and I come to the second half of Chapter 4: Data Types and Expressions, and I am totally stumped with the section on bitwise operators. I mean, I guess I understand what they’re doing, but the question I have at the moment is what use are they? I…
Pocket Weather Forecaster
Have any of you ever seen this? I came across it when I was doing some “spring cleaning.” — It’s a little paper weather forecaster with cutouts and a sliding paper chart for your region of the country inside. The idea is that you line up the paper with what kind of clouds you see,…
minnim – m3 game
Great little logic puzzle game, go here, then use their mouse to click on Games then m3. Enjoy! minnim