Category Archives: Programming

Compiling Mustache.java jar on Windows

Posted on October 5, 2012 by Kjetil H

I’m a Java rookie. I did a basic Java course in college back in the day (even got an A!) but I’m totally clueless now. I finally figured out how to compile Mustacha.java into a working jar (running jar out-of-the-box … Read more

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The Webdesigner (movie idea)

Posted on September 28, 2012 by Kjetil H

Last night I had an awesome idea about a parody movie called something like “The Webdesigner”. Unfortunately I can’t forsee me actually realising this idea so maybe someone else can turn this into a cool movie/trailer/sketch? Oh and I’d love … Read more

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How I implemented currency handling in Mustache across PHP and JavaScript

Posted on September 20, 2012 by Kjetil H

Originally this article was to be about how to implement currency formatting using the template language Mustache, but I see it also covers a bit on how to synchronize template variables between the server-side and client-side. Hopefully you’ll get something … Read more

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Writing about learning how to code: there’s no one answer

Posted on September 17, 2012 by Kjetil H

It seems to have become a trend to blog about learning how to code (at least posts featured on Hacker News). People are different, some people like to read [about programming] and others get their hands dirty immediately. Do what … Read more

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Replay search on GosuGamers doesn’t work properly? No problem

Posted on September 1, 2012 by Kjetil H

Sometimes programming skills become really handy. For example like just now when I tried searching for Warcraft 3 replays including a specific player on GosuGamers. The problem is that it revealed no matches, which is kinda weird because I already … Read more

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Programming revitalization

Posted on August 27, 2012 by Kjetil H

Recently I posted an embarrasingly bad question at http://programmers.stackexchange.com (no you can’t read it). The thing is that I’ve been way out of my programming form of late and was not thinking straight, thus I had misconceptions about how good … Read more

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Readability is important – programming principle that should be used by everyone

Posted on July 3, 2012 by Kjetil H

When you’re working in programming teams, code readability is very important to the overall quality of the system – that is if you care for it in the long run. You have to consider that other people don’t know what … Read more

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Open-source driven by egoism? Reflections after reading Linus Torvald interview

Posted on June 20, 2012 by Kjetil H

Linux creator Linus Torvalds claims the open-source boom is highly driven by egoism and the desire to “put your own trademark” into things (code). Unfortunately I can’t find the article with the Torvalds interview at the moment. I’ve been thinking … Read more

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Enable fullscreen mode when generating YouTube movie with swfobject

Posted on June 5, 2012 by Kjetil H

I recently dived into the YouTube javascript API as we (the company I work for) wanted to track behaviour on the video (note that the YouTube javascript API is not great for this task, but that is another matter). However, … Read more

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Virtual hosts on XAMPP

Posted on July 26, 2011 by Kjetil H

If you ever wanted to develop websites with a root path, such as http://mywebsite, contrary to subdirectory websites like http://localhost/mywebsite, virtual hosts is the way to go. Figure out how to do it on ailoo.net. Another possitive side effect is … Read more

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