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Monthly Archives February 2010

New website finally opened

Phew, that took a while. It’s surprising how much work goes into opening a new website, if you aim high at all. All the design work, then implementation, and then – the big one for me – content. This time I cheated and copied most of the content from the old site. It’s mostly not [...]

| Posted 23 February 2010 | Antti | Random stuff | Comments (2) |

Why can’t you guys just follow the rules, please

Torchlight, a new hack’n’slash game. Nice. Fits my one-minute-at-a-time playing style. But why oh why does the installer put it in my AppData folder? Sheesh guys, AppData is Application Data, not the application itself. Program Files is the right place to install programs. Why is that so difficult? And why am I whining about something [...]

| Posted 21 February 2010 | Antti | Old crow whining | Programming | Comments Off |

This isn’t the way I wanted to be

When I look at myself, I don’t see the man I wanted to be. Somewhere along the line I slipped off track. No bonus points rewarded for recognizing the quote, it’s just too painfully accurate for where I am now.

| Posted 13 February 2010 | Antti | Random stuff | Comments Off |

To Unit Test or Not to Unit Test

…that is the question I’m pondering at the moment. I’ve done some Unit Testing, but never really been full blast into TDD and all that extremist stuff. But as of late I have been working on projects where it just doesn’t feel natural to break the code into pieces that can be unit tested. I’ve [...]

| Posted 02 February 2010 | Antti | Programming | Comments Off |

iPad my ass

A lot of people have asked me what I think about the iPad. As in, just because I work in IT, I should care about what Apple produces. I don’t. But since you asked, here’s my opinion anyway: It’s pointless and stupid, and you shouldn’t buy one unless you need something expensive to keep your [...]

| Posted 01 February 2010 | Antti | Old crow whining | Comments Off |