Garbage collection, in a very real sense
Programmers: know your Excel!
People who don’t know how to hide rows and columns still do hide them. They just find… innovative and unexpected ways of doing so. Changing row height and column width, then protecting the cells against being resized (how they can do that and not know how to hide the cells is beyond [...]
If you’re working with XML, as I currently am, XSLT can sometimes be a godsend. Something that would take ages to do in a structured, procedural way can be reduced to two or three lines of functional XSL code.
So it was with a growing sense of consternation that I noticed that adding XML namespaces to [...]
Elliotte Rusty Harold roundly disses microformats, comparing the practice of utilising them to homeopathy, of all “disciplines.” A bit of cheeky banter, so it’s probably churlish to point out that the comparison itself turns out to be unsound within his own argument: whereas homeopathy might arguably be no solution to any problem, Elliotte’s beef [...]