Recent content by The Bryophyte

I am more than a little biased since I am in a combined MS/PhD program right now, but I enrolled in it for two reasons. I get paid ~$25k for 9 months of school/research each year with almost all tuition and fees waived. I enjoy research and focus on it. I happen to spend a lot of time with...

If you are in a position to, I would tell her to suck it up and use Vim if that's your company standard. Barring exporting the necessary part of the filesystem via NFS, I am not sure how you could give her seamless access to the remote files. Whether she thinks textmate makes her more efficient...

I suppose you have a point there. I guess I'm a little disappointed that [H] linked a Daily Mail article. Just looking at the rest of that page shows the kind of content they generate.

That article is not close to a piece of journalism. Their reference to the paper is not accurate, and Tamara Denning is a second-year grad student, not a PhD or an MD.

I would recommend Python. It is definitely faster to knock something together in Python than it is in Java because it is not as wordy and does not enforce classes or the like. It has a higher adoption rate than Ruby so far. As far as the other alternatives go, I just find it much more...

I don't know a thing about Coldfusion, but as far as Python goes: Official website tutorial written by the language creator - http://docs.python.org/tut/ Dive Into Python (free book available in pdf, html etc.) - http://www.diveintopython.org/ I don't actually know of any paper-only...

I would say that nothing is that great about Java other than its adoption and the fact that every kid out of college these days probably learned on it. That means that it is easy to find people who know it and there are a ton of libraries and communities. I find it inflexible and wordy...

Transparent PNG files do not work in IE6 and earlier. They just don't so far as I know.

You would really be better off reading a tutorial to get a handle on the basics. There are plenty of them to be found. Even if someone wants to hold your hand and help, a forum is a very poor tool to do so for more than a couple of questions.

Jeez, I had to write a clone of the old Mac game "Artillery" for my assembly final. It was like 5,000 lines of code - and it generated random terrain for each game. Of course, I had half of the semester.

Never trust users, be they malicious or stupid. If you always use prepared statements, you eliminate the problem of SQL injection. Of course, you still need to make sure that user input is not garbage, but prepared statements will ensure that it is not damaging.

If you have any interest in research areas, find a professor who does what you like and ask them if you can just do an independent study for them. My first project was an unpaid independent study. From there, I got summer work, hired as a consultant, and finally a free pass into grad school for...

I know that mikeblas already found your answer, but please use the code tags in the future. It makes things much easier to read.

Yes, but that might invalidate the test.

No, you cannot mount a MS VM on VMWare. They are not nearly compatible. Have you tried removing VM additions? Those are the closest you will get to troubleshooting the VMs drivers.