tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6157718941667184695Tue, 17 Jun 2025 11:08:57 +0000ui designMore semi-coherent (at best) rambling from a software guy.http://www.codeslate.com/noreply@blogger.com (Jim Martin)Blogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6157718941667184695.post-1148442492044357354Sat, 07 Feb 2009 18:26:00 +00002009-02-07T10:32:41.471-08:00"Here's your new tunic, ensign.""Um, sir, it's red...""Report to the away team tomorrow morning."http://www.codeslate.com/2009/02/handling-layoffs-star-trek-way.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jim Martin)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6157718941667184695.post-7204600023280526243Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:03:00 +00002007-02-28T16:15:33.489-08:00[By popular request, here are the questions to the answers in this post.]1. Why are manhole covers round?2. There are three switches in one room and one light bulb in another. How can you tell which switch controls the bulb if you can only make one trip from the switch room to the bulb room?3. If a plane crashes right on the border of the US and Canada, in which country would you bury the http://www.codeslate.com/2007/02/survivor-answers.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jim Martin)11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6157718941667184695.post-3219738829676838735Tue, 27 Feb 2007 17:07:00 +00002007-02-27T09:22:22.701-08:00I was helping my stepfather install the new version of real player (yeah, I know) because he absolutely had to play some ra files. At one point - and apparently I wasn't aware of this technical limitation in CODECs - it's critical that Real Networks have his e-mail address in order to play an audio file.Of course, I entered biteme@no.com. It said that address was in use.So I changed it to biteme@http://www.codeslate.com/2007/02/mr-biteme-of-nantucket-bitemes.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jim Martin)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6157718941667184695.post-1039006955607960101Wed, 21 Feb 2007 23:30:00 +00002007-02-21T15:36:04.601-08:00ui designImagine if you will a website, belonging to a bank. As part of their new security policy they give you a series of questions for which you are supposed to provide the answer. One of these questions asks for a name of a particular family member.Which I enter.And the website tells me my answer must be 4 characters long. But the name isn't. So the right answer to the question violates the input http://www.codeslate.com/2007/02/idiotic-ui-choices.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jim Martin)5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6157718941667184695.post-3066946977187873699Wed, 24 Jan 2007 23:18:00 +00002007-01-25T07:43:37.424-08:00(Overheard at a recent interview:)So, Jeremy, tell me a little about yourself.Because they'll roll and they can't fall down the hole. And because manholes are round.Um, okay, how about your most recent project?Turn on two switches, wait a while and turn one off. If the bulb is on, it's the one left on. If the bulb is off and warm, it was the one you switched off. Otherwise it's the one you didn'thttp://www.codeslate.com/2007/01/you-dont-bury-survivors.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jim Martin)38tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6157718941667184695.post-1850075617204140134Sun, 14 Jan 2007 03:55:00 +00002007-01-14T19:33:33.580-08:00I kind of like the ambiguity in the the blog name (and domain). If you read it as "code slate", it's about writing software on a clean slate. If you read it as "code's late", well, that's also about writing software.So here's the first post - the post which nobody will read since the blog is brand spanking sparkly new. Well, somebody might (hi Mom!). Along with the usual funny pictures and randomhttp://www.codeslate.com/2007/01/welcome-to-code-slate-or-is-that-codes.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jim Martin)0