Category Archives: Bad Code

Vine, HTML5 Video, Animated GIFs, and the End of Civilization

Posted on May 10, 2013 by m

So, Vine was rudely thrust into my consciousness today when a friend of mine posted a link to a site (buzzfeed.com, of course) to a link with several embedded Vine videos (of Ryan Gosling, of course). I had been trying … Continue reading →

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Zynga stock shares hit all time low.

Posted on August 1, 2012 by m

I doubt that my article pointing out the absurdity of Zynga’s engineering blog was enough to send their stock prices into a tailspin, but I’d like to think that it helped. I’ve long been predicting the death of Facebook. Either … Continue reading →

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Common PHP mistakes

Posted on April 28, 2012 by m

In doing more WordPress work, I ran across more bad code in a theme. Bad code was a reoccurring theme in this theme. global $options; foreach ($options as $value) { if (get_settings( $value[’id’] ) === FALSE) { $$value[’id’] = $value[’std’]; … Continue reading →

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