{"id":431,"date":"2007-01-29T12:37:09","date_gmt":"2007-01-29T17:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/?p=431"},"modified":"2007-01-28T23:49:18","modified_gmt":"2007-01-29T04:49:18","slug":"total-nerdsville-everyone-else-move-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/01\/29\/total-nerdsville-everyone-else-move-along\/","title":{"rendered":"Total nerdsville &#8211; everyone else move along"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nicmcphee\/326820913\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/136\/326820913_ac438a1ed2_m.jpg?resize=240%2C160\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" alt=\"You must protect yourself from those evil marketing rays\" align='right' hspace='10' vspace='10' data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThose that have wrestled with the joys of GUI development, especially using Java&#8217;s <code>GridBagLayout<\/code> should find <a href=\"http:\/\/madbean.com\/anim\/totallygridbag\">this animation<\/a> highly amusing.  Everyone else will probably be completely baffled and should probably clips their toe nails instead.<\/p>\n<p>Tip of the cap to Matt Justin for the pointer.  What other use do alumni have if not to provide us with such edifying distractions?<\/p>\nNo tag for this post.\n\t<h4>Related posts<\/h4>\n\t<ul class=\"st-related-posts\">\n\t<li>No related posts.<\/li>\n\t<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those that have wrestled with the joys of GUI development, especially using Java&#8217;s GridBagLayout should find this animation highly amusing. Everyone else will probably be completely baffled and should probably clips their toe nails instead. Tip of the cap to Matt Justin for the pointer. What other use do alumni have if not to provide &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/01\/29\/total-nerdsville-everyone-else-move-along\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Total nerdsville &#8211; everyone else move along&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[4,14],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90sy-6X","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":274,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/12\/24\/lets-record-some-random-crap-and-put-it-on-the-web\/","url_meta":{"origin":431,"position":0},"title":"Let&#8217;s record some random crap and put it on the web","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"24 Dec 05","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm sorry, but we've gone and done something silly: Sub-Evil Boy and I made our first podcast. 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