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Subaru, the Original Smart Car?

Written by Kodiak on 06/12/2011 — Leave a Comment

In 1968, Subaru entered the American market with the 360 mini-sedan. The tiny car, which Subaru marketed as being “cheap and ugly,” cost just $1297 (which would be about $8036 in 2010 dollars). Subaru marketing (see below) boasted that the 360 could go—even places that larger cars wouldn’t fit. With a length roughly equivalent to […]

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Generate Accessors and Mutators Automatically with PDT

Written by Kodiak on 05/15/2011 — Leave a Comment

I’ve been using PDT, the PHP Development Tools IDE that’s built on top of Eclipse, for my PHP development for a few years now. I came to appreciate the power and flexibility of Eclipse as a Java IDE, so it only made sense to use PDT for my PHP coding. One thing that’s always frustrated […]

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HTTP Post vs. HTTP Get

Written by Kodiak on 08/01/2010 — Leave a Comment

I am currently involved, for the second time in the past few months, in interviewing for a new web programmer/analyst to join my team at work. Given that we are a web applications shop, several of our technical questions revolve around web protocols. I’ve now spoken with, between the two positions, around a dozen applicants. […]

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University Websites

Written by Kodiak on 07/31/2010 — Leave a Comment

Situational humor is funny because it is true. While it points out our flaws, the humor comes from the fact that there is often little, if anything we can do to change the situation. All we can do is laugh and move on.

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Blogging from my phone

Written by Kodiak on 05/23/2010 — Leave a Comment

I’m testing out the WordPress app for Android devices, which I just installed on my phone. Maybe this will get me to blog more often…I doubt it…

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