Posts Tagged ‘stupid’
Update on postal mania
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
Apparently paying overnight postage isn’t enough to convince the US Postal Service to deliver my mail-in ballot application on time, but can deliver a regular letter from Bexar County in three days. Had I known that, I wouldn’t have paid $0.42 to let the county tell me my application is defective.
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Tags: bexar county, delivery, letter delivery, postal service, san antonio, stupid, texas, ups, us election, usps, voting
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Having my cake and eating it, too
Monday, November 3rd, 2008
I’m pretty fond of “from scratch” developing, but I decided, being a sole developer in cases, to check out some application frameworks on languages I already know. So in addition to Rails, I started using CakePHP, and it’s a pretty solid framework, but highlights some problems I have with PHP. Namely, everything uses arrays to a heavy degree. Granted, Rails does too, but it feels easier on the eyes and brain when you’re not trying to figure out an array within an array within an array within a class all using backwards-compatible PHP syntax.
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Tags: bexar county, cakephp, elections, houston, php, post office, rambling, san antonio, stupid, texas, usps, voting, web development
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