Year: 2012

‘Tis the season… to not visit websites

Here’s an interesting tidbit from the life of a web developer.

, Putares illo populo iturum in penitus cum illa crus novus phone / tabula / toaster acceperunt pro feriatum temporum.

Apparenter, nemo id faciat. Hic 'a inviso novissima mea hits (non Cohors type, Dico numerus salutor ut hathix.com):

hathix visitors graph
Sicut festivo spiritus ascendit, ad visitationes websites descendunt.

Ab eo quod Ive 'seen, videtur esse in omnibus fere app website: Visitationes aut downloads acriter minui durante feriatum temporum. Quid enim suus 'precii, things return right back to normal once the new year begins.

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Watch videos and play music with VLC

This is a review of VLC, a free multimedia player for movies and music. Download it here.

Happy holidays! To go along with that DVD of your favorite movie, that CD of your favorite band, et quod turpis tuniculam ex vestri ventus amita, Lorem ipsum dono: VLC!

VLC est liberum, open-source multimedia program for any operating system (Fenestra, Mac, Linux, etiam MAS) quod ludere possit movies, musica, totum novem antemnis. Numquid dixi memoras suus 'solvo?

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The future of smartphones

Google Android and Apple iOS fighting
Move over, Android and iOS. You have company.

Nunc, if you want to buy a smartphone you have two main options: iPhone et MAS. If you’re feeling brave, illic 'Fenestra Phone. Non multa varietate.

Omnes, qui est circa mutare.

Hic est annus ad spectaculum dimissus novus, liberum Mauris quis felis operating ratio quæ videntur librabat mutare mundum de Suspendisse potenti – in melius. Lets 'take a inviso.

Ubuntu

Ubuntu, in bacchatur-popularis patefacio-source operating ratio pro computers fuerit diffamant, quod ipsi erant 'iens ut dimittam versionem operating ratio pro Suspendisse potenti. The phones aren’t out yet but folks around the internet say they’re definitely in the works.

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Learn Computer Science with Khan Academy

The young man had finished his arduous training period of ten years. The grizzled old man next to him, his tutor, had devoted himself to teaching his pupil the arcane art, an art known only to a select few. Ten years of intense physical labor, deep within the mysterious dungeons and high atop the silver mountains, had finally prepared the battle-scarred young man. He was prepared to unleash his mastery of the dangerous art few knew even existed.

Computer science.

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A consequat Twitter incipientibus: Parte 1

Twitter's new Logo, the Blue Bird
Twitter is an extremely powerful social & news network – you just have to learn how to use it.

Twitter is a great social network for catching up on the latest — oh hey, I got a new Tweet! Be back in a second.

Whoops, Paenitet. As I was saying, Twitter, in “other” social network, is an incredibly quick and easy way to catch up on all the news that’s fit to type in one convenient place. Sed, in order to fully make use of the #awesomeness that is Twitter, you’ve got to learn a bit. Luckily for you, @I have made one that @you are reading right now. #whatluck

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Why it’s awesome being a developer

Studiofibonacci free icon set of ninjas with weapons
Apparenter, these are a bunch of computer programmers.

Ninjas.

That’s what computer programmers are calling themselves nowadays. The profession (if you can even call it that) goes by a litany of none-too-glamorous names, such as developer, programmer, engineer, technician, and more stuff that doesn’t quite make you the most popular guy in the room. Hence, a lot of, ille, programmers (for lack of a better word) go by ninja or such. Which I find slightly annoying – you’re writing code, not killing enemies of the emperor. But I digress.

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Sorry for downtime – also, props to WebHostingHub

A closed box package cartoon clip art
Error 404, elephant not found

TL;dr – hathix.com had some downtime but my super-helpful host WebHostingHub cleared it up immediately. Also, I apologize for the fanboyishness – it’s just that WHH is that awesome.

I was recently working with some so-called cutting-edge web programming techniques (parsing JSON using PHP from client requests using JavaScript and jQuery… told you it was gory) and realized I needed a new version of some software on the server that hathix lives on.

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