Ben Cornwell

While working on a bug at work, www.amishfinefood.com turned up in industry ranking results. Now I don’t claim to be familiar with traditional Amish cuisine, but there a few wtf’s here:

• What’s up with the loading-splash-horse-thingy?
• indexx.php [sic] ????
• <marquee> tags! run!
• Never rely on images alone for navigation: http://www.amishfinefood.com/indexx.php/? (unless, of course, you can degrade gracefully)
• If basic gist of the Amish way is to shun technology of all forms, just wtf are these guys doing on the Internet?
• While may have been reluctantly into the use of the Internets as a distribution channel, do the really need to take the amatuer, wtf-are-standards, totally shite ‘traditional’ approach to web development?
• Try doing a search for a product called ‘%’… I didn’t know SQL Injection was traditional Amish fare!
• I guess expecting SSL for credit card transactions is just pushing things too far.

I’ve just registered for the Around the Bay In a Day ride being organised by Bicycle Victoria. While I can definitely count myself out of the 250km option, I’ll give the 210km ride a crack - just hope I’ll still be alive by the end!

Found this via slashdot:

You Can Own an Integer Too — Get Yours Here

6A 4B 98 65 B6 B3 84 7D 4C 17 94 37 04 0F 6B 4E, is now mine.

Hands off n00bs, or I bring out the DMCA spam cannon…

Most people working with postgres have probably encountered something like this before:

SELECT
instrument,
priceband,
pounds
FROM   tbl_instruments,
tbl_prices
WHERE   tbl_instruments.priceband=tbl_prices.priceband;
ERROR:  column reference "priceband" is ambiguous

Although that’s normal behavior according to the SQL standard, and very easy to fix using ‘tbl_instruments.priceband’ in the SELECT, it kind-of doesn’t make sense given that WHERE clause: both tbl_instruments.priceband and tbl_prices.priceband will yeild the same value. I found the following in the Postgres mailing archives (imo, a much neater solution than qualifying the column names):

SELECT
instrument,
priceband,
pounds
FROM
tbl_instruments
JOIN
tbl_prices USING (priceband);

Now, where do I collect my complimentary DMCA take-down notice?

Am I the only person with a cynical view of the limp-wristed submissive whimper ‘response’ issued by Kevin Rose on behalf of Digg?