Brandon Wang

5 Life Lessons Coding has Taught Me

Coding is a passion, a joy, and a love to me. Although it’s extremely nerdy of me, sometimes I just love to sit down and code for an afternoon. But coding hasn’t just been lines of parentheses and exclamation marks. It has taught or reminded me of many things in life.

From mistakes to rushing, I think that coding as well as the rest of my life (school, sports, music) have pretty much placed me more prepared for the real world than I was a year ago. But I still have a lot to learn.

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Time Constraints and New Projects

Lately, a lot of things have been going on in my life. Frequently I forget that I’m still a student, and that I still have to keep my grades up, my parents happy, my teachers happy, my friends happy, and pretty much everyone happy.

What is going on with my life? Well, a few things. End-of-year finals and TAKS testing are mandated for my grade level right now, and there’s no way to not take it, and there’s no reason to not take it either.

I also participate in several out-of-school activities, including swimming and Chinese school (as part of my mission to be bilingual), and please don’t forget I’m almost out of my mind trying to keep up with several blogs at once: this blog, my literature blog, my technology blog, as well as the evil little project I’m trying to do.

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Sometimes, Forget IE!

Sometimes, you just want to throw out IE. Honestly. Sometimes you just wish it didn’t exist.

I am one of those people; the type of people that honestly wish that IE didn’t exist. More specifically, that IE6 wouldn’t exist. IE7 is better, but it’s all worse than Mozilla Firefox. IE6 can’t even pass an Acid test. That is just kind of sad.

I remember my original designs, making a beautiful design, uploading it, just to discover… this horrid bad light-blue border leaking through my PNGs. Although there are fixes for this, I still want to forget IE.

Unfortunately, forgetting IE isn’t as easy as just telling everyone to forget it. Every single school I have walked into seems to have seemingly forgotten about Mozilla Firefox and IE7. And the worst thing is that I can’t blame them.

Until IE6 gets phased, it’s still high on my view charts. Therefore, it has to be high on anybody’s priorities. I have compiled a list below of the things that I don’t mind losing, and that you shouldn’t mind losing either. Continued »

[Portfolio] Brandon Wang, version 4

I’ve done it. I have finally done it. The fourth reiteration of my website has finally been completed. It was a hard two days of work, but that I am done with it, I am very proud of the result.

The new website, I am glad to say, is 99% completely my own imagination, and completely my own work. I am also glad to say that the one percent extra is purely inspiration. Continued »

Using <bdo> to Hide Your Email Address

There are many ways to hide your email address, ranging from using Flash to hex to linking to address-hiding websites, and even using stuff like “somebody at somebody dot com”

Unfortunately, the “somebody at somebody dot com” is the most common model, and the spammers have even figured out how to write scripts that read that.

What we need is a new way to hide email addresses.

Enter <bdo>.

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Things have been going slowly lately; I fractured my toe bone.