Tag Archives: oldschool

coding like it is 1996

It is a sad fact but I don’t always get to pick the tools I use at work.  Just today I felt like my colleague and I woke up in 1996 – back when java 1.6 was released. The client … Continue reading

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WordPress upgrade by hand

I received a email from my own blog.  Yup, wordpress@paranoidprofessor.com, which is actually pretty amazing as that email address doesn’t really exist. The content of the mail was as follows. Please update your site at http://blog.paranoidprofessor.com to WordPress 4.4.1. Updating … Continue reading

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Becoming a developer – makefiles

Each programming language has its own set of commands for turning source code into a executable program.  Back in the olden days this was done using an old and by today’s standards a tool with limited functionality.  This tool as … Continue reading

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