BestBuy had this laptop (model 59360580) on sale last week for about $750.00. I wasn’t able to find a lot of information about it except for common complaints about the touchpad mouse. I don’t remember finding anything about running Linux on it. I went ahead and bought …
Articles by Jeff Trawick
How can you map URLs to lower case in htaccess ONLY?
Recently I had to debug a mod_rewrite snippet that tried to convert URLs to lower case for a site on a shared host with no access to .conf files. The normal mod_rewrite solution requires the RewriteMap directive, which can’t be placed in .htaccess.
The problematic mod_rewrite snippet was definitely …
Can’t get to Portland?
The last time I tried to go to Portland, we never left Raleigh because of the weather in Minneapolis. I ended up not going, as the proposed replacement itinerary wouldn’t get me there until most of the planned meetings were over. So I charged some extra batteries for my …Oh wow, Functional Programming in Scala is over just like that!
On the last assignment of Progfun, I got sidetracked by some assertions in the discussion group about implementation details that weren’t generally true, and hovered very close to the solution for far too long — long enough to start worrying about how I would finish by the deadline and make …