Object Orientation
Craig Andera: “I ask the question: is there something about OO that is inherently more maintaintable than a well-designed procedural system? I’m not sure there is. “ Wow, Craig really captured the sum...
View ArticleBedtime reading
Tonight I cozied up with the first two chapters of Dive Into Python and also got PyTechnorati working. This is a lead-up to installing TechnoBot, which is written in Python. [Warning: serious...
View ArticleMore programmer nerdism
hackdiary: “Using an RDF representation of Wordnet, the lexical database of English, we attach keywords to photographs to indicate what they objects they depict. With simple inference logic, we create...
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Happy picture
I don’t know either of these guys personally, but this picture just makes me smile. Photo credit: Tim O’Reilly/O’Reilly Network.
View ArticleWord completion
Okay, lest I forget: Ctrl-space is to Visual Studio as M-/ is to emacs. They both try to complete the word you’re typing based on what is in your buffers.
View ArticleTwo views of GCC
Two quotes from this Infoworld article about the SCO case: “The OpenServer compiler is crap. Without (the GCC) they would be up the creek,” said Hans Anderson, the director of software development with...
View ArticleArticle 3
Believe it or not the following fact was useful to me today: Technically, a string constant is an array of characters. The internal representation of a string has a null character ” at the end, so the...
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Everything old is new again
TechCrunch discovers moblogging. Let’s pause to give a nod to apps like Dave Winer’s YoMoBlog, Nokia’s LifeBlog, the TextAmerica service, to popularizers like Joi Ito, and all of the many others who...
View ArticleFail Whale returns
Got a fail whale just now. Ya know, I was starting to miss the old chap. Update: status note about the outage.
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Amazon S3 outage
CenterNetworks Update 5: “We are now down over 3.5 hours.” You can see the effect over on Twitter as well — peoples’ thumbnail images are missing.
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