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In a technical sense though, one might consider a programming language to have a compiler and linker and debugger and able to create stand-alone executable files. Most scripting languages can also do that these days.

Perhaps the best guide then is intent - if a language is intended for script tasks (Windows/DOS batch files, for example, or even PHP), it is a scripting language. If the language supports a wider focus, it is a more general purpose programming language (Python, C, PERL, Java, etc.).

Ultimately, the best tool for the job, selected from the tools you know :) If you're writing a web application, there are a few languages either explicitly designed for that (PHP is a good/bad example), but many other languages can do it as well (Python, C, PERL, Java, etc.). If you're writing a desktop application, PHP would not be your best bet, but Python might not be either. Ditto mobile apps.

Comment · 13 years ago

You, sir, are looking for the More Fields plugin (http://wordpress.org/plugins/more-fields/), and possibly the More Types plugin (http://wordpress.org/plugins/more-types/).

MF lets you add custom fields to any existing post type, and MT lets you create new custom post types (like, say, Music Events) that you can attach fields to using the MT plugin.

Comment · 13 years ago

I've started doing DDP Yoga (http://www.ddpyoga.com/ - warning, autoplaying video) along with push-ups, squats and a bunch of stuff with a pile of dumbbells. With the help of an in-home personal trainer, I've gone from weighing 265 pounds (and getting shin splints going up a steep flight of stairs) to 215 pounds in 7 months. I took January off to rest up and give my ankles some time to relax (I broke both of them in 2000 and they sometimes hurt), and only gained 5 pounds.

Now I've added the yoga to my routine, I'll be going pretty strict on the diet starting this weekend (yes, I still drank pop and alcohol and ate chips and occasional McDonald's during those first 7 months). My goal is 190 pounds by June 1 - here's hoping!

So good luck to you, sir! It can be done :)

Comment · 14 years ago

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy first, and Nightfall (both the short story and the later novelization) second.

Comment · 14 years ago

True enough. But all they'd have to memorize is one hard password (or even a pattern like 102938), and one modifier pattern based on the URL of the site.

A simple example, using 102938 as the base password would be taking the main name part of the url (eg. www.google.com would just be "google"), converting each letter to a number (g = 7, o = 15, o = 15, g = 7, l = 12, e = 5), adding them all together (61), divide that by the number of characters used (61 / 6 = int(10.16) = 10), then add that result to every pair of numbers in the original password (10 + 10 = 20, 29 + 10 = 39, 38 + 10 = 48), giving you a password of 203940 for that site :)

EDIT: forgot to make this hard to crack. Again, the pattern approach can work - 203948 for "google" could easily and predictably become "go20og39le48@mycompany" or some such.

Comment · 14 years ago

My brains alone. Over the years I've developed a pattern I can remember easily, and apply another pattern to it based on the site or app's name. It's a simple math formula that changes the entire password instead of just applying a suffix or prefix to an existing strong password.

Ironically, the only site this fails on is my banking site which has wish-it-was-2-factor authentication and a limit of 8 characters for the password. Stupid.

Comment · 14 years ago

There's a min()/max() polyfill at https://github.com/indyarmy/jquery.cssMinMax.plugin right now. Someone with more patience might be able to extend it to support calc() as well.

Comment · 14 years ago

Recently, I'm all about Python and Flask (or Web2Py for simpler things).

Comment · 14 years ago

I seem to remember having a 30 minute bus ride to school through elementary school, and if I missed the bus, it was an hour's walk (though I could do it in about 10 minutes by bike if the swampy bit was mostly dry).

I guess I'm fortunate that my parents not only trusted me to do that, but encouraged it.

That said, I have a face for radio - they probably didn't think anyone in their right mind would even attempt to try and steal me...

Comment · 14 years ago

I've used http://www.merchant-accounts.ca/ in the past and been happy with them.

Comment · 14 years ago

In your example, if both developers are using TABs instead of spaces, why would it matter that one sees it as 5 spaces and the other as 8? It's still just a single TAB character either way.

Plus, each developer has the freedom to choose how many spaces a TAB is - I like 8 when I'm using my big monitor, but I prefer 4 on my laptop. With TABs, I can see it both ways depending on the machine.

On the off chance that I'm ever actually editing in a smaller window, I can even set it to 2 characters instead, but when I open that file again on another machine, I can see it as 4 or 8 characters.