Rabid Family Blog

I have a problem with people telling others they should always use a library if possible. I don't have a problem with the implied meaning, I have a problem with the way it's phrased.

This is telling other programmers to be lazy, not just with their amount of work, which is a good thing, but with their skill level, which is usually a bad thing.

There needs to be a new way of phrasing that. Something like: "You should use a library only once you understand the underlying concepts."

The reason I say this is because there isn't a library out there for everything, and you're going to encounter problems on that lower level that you'd normally use a library for; you will need the skills to deal with those problems. Also, most libraries have a few bugs that you won't be able to fix without being able to understand the internal code.

What are you going to do when you've embedded Prototype into every page of your site and suddenly a Prototype bug prevents development? Are you going to recode your entire site?

Use libraries all you want, but don't actually rely on them if at all possible. This doesn't mean you need to take apart the .NET CLR; you have to draw the line somewhere, but there is no reason why you shouldn't know several forms of AJAX if you're into AJAX development.

I mention prototype because I've noticed that nobody cares to learn classic AJAX anymore. They use Prototype, calling classic AJAX obsolete, yet you can't work with the internal code of prototype without knowing classic AJAX.

live action movie of Dragonball. Staring a very non-asian goku, and Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

This is the real reason god is so vengeful.

this morning in my dream I climbed out a window, picked a lock, rescued 3 pigs, and kicked a handicapped guy in the face. pure awesome.

I can finally talk publicly about these sites because I finally parked their domains =)

http://www.rabidentertainment.com/

This will be my official game news site, and will be the portal to everything concerning my games. I actually have it partly built already, but I have no graphics for it yet.

I will post links here to my company's games' news on this new site's blog once I push it live, but if you're interested, check it periodically to see when it goes live.


http://www.wasatchtrader.com/

This will be a new side business that I am starting. It will be a classified ads website that I hope people will use for its extreme user-friendliness, simplicity, and features. I realize it would be extremely hard to make a success, but it's an area that has room for improvement. I mean, people still use craigslist for crying out loud.

I made quite a bit of it last year, but I decided to redo the entire site now that I have much more extensive experience.


I will keep you updated as to when either of these go live. I hope some of you can help me get some traffic to WT when it's finished :)

It was hot as ass all of last week. But this morning, my car doors are frozen shut because of a blizzard. I loathe utah and its bipolar weather.