by David | 2014-03-18 | meta
Andy Bailey answered the age-old question on StackOverflow: How do you convert a Roman numeral into an integer in PHP? And the answer is, drumroll, please… $romans = array( 'M' => 1000, 'CM' => 900, 'D' => 500, 'CD' => 400, 'C' => 100, 'XC' => 90, 'L' => 50, 'XL' =>...
by David | 2014-03-06 | meta
Apress is offering free ebooks online. This is not a limited time offer. You can find out more about it on their site. Preliminarily, here are some of the offerings that I found: TouchDevelop 3rd Edition Managing Risk and Information Security Intel® Xeon Phi™...
by David | 2014-03-06 | typography, user interface
I haven’t any practical knowledge of Intel’s new font Clear Sans, but I never let that keep me from opining. The David Spade in me wants to say: I like Clear Sans, but I liked it better the first time, when it was called Anivers. Now more seriously, they are...
by David | 2014-03-03 | meta, privacy, security, technology
My daughter asked me earlier this year, “Papa, if you aren’t doing anything wrong, why do you want to obfuscate your email traffic?” Actually, I am sure that she did not say obfuscate, but her point is the same: If you are not doing anything wrong, why would you want...
