Since my son suffers from mild itchiness of the skin when using ordinary body washes, I was researching alternate body washes and found a few products labeled “hypo-allergenic”. I have come across this label before and have not paid much attention to it. But imagine my surprise when I found that Wikipedia defined the term [...]
Some information on merchant accounts and some follow-up information regarding getting a credit-card processor.
On a visit to the San Jose History Park (part of Kelley Park — Happy Hollow Zoo area in San Jose, CA), we found a refurbished/refitted electric car exhibited in the “Trolley Barn“. This car was supposedly originally manufactured and sold in the early 1900′s. I was amazed that as early as 1907, electric cars [...]
When doing some maintenance work on C code (refactoring!), I wondered if I should code C if-else clauses in some particular way to take advantage of modern processor pipelines and caching. It seems obvious that if you have multiple else-if clauses, then putting the most likely to execute code in the first if clause would [...]
Yet another discussion on Payment Processing. This time on Hacker News. Some focus on subscription billing. Got to see some names I haven’t seen before — Braintree, Spreedly, Cybersource, PowerPay…
Zed Shaw’s comments on Django make me want to try it out….
Decided to switch to a blog format for the site — seems like it will be easier to document my transient interests this way. Most likely this will become a collection of links and comments on stuff I find on the great wide Internet.