"concrete" in Java

...implies that which actually does something as opposed to that which has placeholder methods for something that inheirts it to override. Concrete means "not interface" per a coworker. A class which does not contain any undefined method is a concrete class.

TimTowTdi

I ran into this Perl term for "there is more than one way to do it" just now when Googling for a less awful way to say: There is more than one way to skin a cat.

1. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/TIMTOWTDI
2. http://slang.org/TIMTOWTDI-meaning-definition
3. http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ThereIsMoreThanOneWayToDoIt

for swizzle

I overheard a conversation today on pointer swizzling of which Wikipedia says that it is the art of replacing a soft reference from one object to another by way of a number, Guid, or name with an actual pointer. Imagine a serialized collection of objects which holds parent/child relationships getting cast back to objects in C#.

grab the value of a parameter off of an HTML element in plain Jane JavaScript

if (element.getAttribute("data-dojo-attach-point").indexOf("whatever") != -1) {

Add a new closing form tag and then open a new form tag to make an ASP.NET web form post to someplace other than itself.

The new form tag will have an action pointing to the URL of where you wish to head to. This is a classic old hack.

my old notes on integrating with a merchant account

This is a blast from the past. I think this goes back to 2007. I haven't done this sort of thing in a long, long time. I never hear anything about anyone rolling their own shopping cart anymore for a simple web presence. It seems like most people will use a canned package these days.

Google, Grande Communications, and AT&T will each bring 1gbps Fiber to Austin, Texas.

nice