Author: Kenneth A Grimm

Kenneth Walter Walter Harmon Joseph John Andrew Andreas, a.k.a. K. A. G. Sundaram, a.k.a. Kenneth A. Grimm, is a father, a pastor, a missionary, a political consultant, a YouTube personality and a computer engineer. He has served churches in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Louisiana, the Philippines, Kenya, Sudan, South Sudan and India. He designed, built, and programmed his first programmable computer more than a half-century ago at the age of thirteen, and continued his career primarily in realtime embedded microprocessors, both hardware and software design. He is currently the site editor at RubyTapas, the producer of nearly a dozen YouTube channels, and the chief software engineer at Black Bayou Software.

Why I Did What I Did – Coding for Maintainability

Here is what I spent all day working on today. I replaced a large block of mixed HTML/PHP code that looked like this…

…repeated multiple times with variations, with this PHP code:


	$current_value      =&amp; MyMirrors::$options-&gt;current_mode();
				
	$multi = is_multisite();
	$plus

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Kit Martin Announces the Release of Byte Chaser

Kit Martin writes:

Hi all,

Tomorrow Byte Chaser, my first publicly released game, will go live. Its a meditation I’ve had on meaninglessness (Thanks Dostoevsky) , visuals *F**** liberal arts degree), sound (Thanks Dad), building (thanks Joseph) , ideas of

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New Plugin Spec: My Mirrors

Specifications before coding, or iterative product development; which?

Having just watched several videos (thank you Avdi) in which the wisdom of various software gurus were elucidated, I can see that the accepted answer is…

You’re wrong! Heretic!

…regardless of …