I can’t really take the high road when it comes to defensive HTML form flexibility. I distinctly remember trying to convince our designer at my last job that trimming extra spaces at the end of a URL wasn’t necessary because the user […]
A reader from Omaha, NE writes: Dear Klep, What are your thoughts on this whole Ajax phenomenon in webapp development? That’s a great question. It’s almost like I wanted to answer that question and fabricated the query just to set up the […]
With my wife out of town for work, I decided to attend SuperHappyDevHouse 2, an all-night gathering of elite coders, their laptops, and about a dozen power strips. The idea is terrific — get people together to work on whatever they want. […]
Yesterday I bought a new video card for my “I hate my new TiVo and want to build my own” project. Unfortunately, it only had S-Video out and my TV only has RCA and Coax in. So I headed to my friendly […]
I finally bought my PowerBook — it’s been about 6 years since I bought a Mac. Those who know me know that I will go to great lengths to get a deal. I was especially concerned with this purchase because I figure […]
Now that this blog has over a hundred subscribers and has received multiple awards, I think it’s time to move onto something more sophisticated than blosxom. I’m moving over to WordPress. The old feed will still work. If you are a subscriber […]
Note: This embarassingly self-absorbed message is a parody of this other embarassingly self-absorbed message from 7+ years ago: http://www.scottkleper.com/crossplatform.txt Local Geek Becomes Local Mac Geek (Again) 06/07/05 San Francisco, CA — Scott J. Kleper, reluctant security architect and PADI-certified scuba diver, announced […]
When I was a freshman at Stanford, there was no greater off-campus pleasure than a trip to Juice Club (now Jamba Juice). Since I didn’t have a car or an overwhelming desire to walk, these trips were infrequent, but always memorable. One […]
I like to provide Marni with enough New Yorkness in California so that she’s not miserable from all the liberal hippy freaks here. I’ve found that one of the best ways to do that is to take her to an Oakland A’s […]
Some time last year, I was giving my friend Jared a ride to the train station from work. As we approached a red light at the corner of Shoreline Road and Marine World Parkway in Belmont, the driver of the car in […]