Before you start reading this post, if you are a web developer, I highly recommend you read this: Smashing Magazine’s Principles of CSS.

If you are into web development, then you will have already seen the inconsistencies across every browser, essentially some things work and some things don’t. This brings up the topic of standards. Hah, I remember some guy saying he would eat his hat if browsers ever followed standards. I think any web developer should be inclined to do so.

My biggest question: Why isn’t IE ...

The Law of Momentum, you wonder.. You probably thought this was a physics lesson.

To sum it up, when applied to matter of doing work dictates the amount of work done successfully generates as much pleasure and willingness to do more work. This means if you do little work before tackling the big one that you've been procrastinating from then you might as well keep procrastinating. Whereas a succession of work accomplished throughout your day will give you the initial push to get past the initial hurdle of the...

There are many people who look to become an iPhone programmer because of stories about becoming rich quick. Woahhh, stop right there... How are you going to program something worthwhile when you've never programmed before or finished anything possibly worthwhile. Beginning to program for the iPhone doesn't mean "Let's start on a application, just need to learn the basics," it means having an understanding of the platform and dealing with problems that will come up. Learning a language and using a language a...

I attempted to jailbreak my iPod touch, which worked. I used the iPod touch firmware 3.0 and redsn0w for this, in case you are wondering. I went to Cydia, which asked for an upgrade, so I went for an upgrade. I was pretty sure this was a successful jailbreak until it crashed a third time I executed Cydia. Wow, my iPod restarted only to stay stuck at the Apple logo screen. "Fuck that!" It really scared me when I tried to go into DFU mode, but it wouldn't. I searched the internet until I found this solution t...

UPDATE [02/2012]: Lowering the standard comes from my idea of my model/thoughts of programming languages in 2009, which is probably irrelevant to today.

There used to be a time where computer programming used to be limited to a handful of people. Today, computer programming is for anyone interested. A question I have not seen asked is "Why are we lowering our standards in regards to what language a newbie should learn?"

Many reasons, but I'll list a few. Easier languages allow for increased productivity when ...

I've been doing some extensive PHP OOP lately and found that it is easier to discard many principles of OOP such as the Single Responsibility Principle. Single Responsibility (in a nutshell) is every object / function has one main responsibility. It is challenging to break the usual thoughts of procedural programming where everything is programmed from top down. Essentially, having a procedural style of programming means you are thinking like a computer.

Well, how can one start thinking about objects as peo...

If you are a beginning C++ programmer, I strongly suggest that you get into SDL as a start to your programming life with seeing how third party libraries make your life easier. Only after you’ve gotten through the C++ basics should you attempt to use SDL and if you haven’t gotten though the basics, then buy yourself C++ for Dummies.

SDL is called Simple DirectMedia Layer and can be used for things like graphics, audio, font rendering, and etc. There are no bounds on what SDL can do. Take a look at the libra...