Languages
Cool Code v Working Code
Wednesday, October 25th, 2006Developers and Administrators under the age of thirty have no idea why old farts like me are sceptical of the productivity claims, why we roll our eyes at the hype and buzzwords that sell books and consulting engagements, about the amzing new programming language / technique / methodology du jour. Occassionally, it’s because we’ve seen [...]
Free Language Courses » FSI Language Courses
Thursday, August 24th, 2006Free Language Courses » FSI Language Courses The United States Government’s Foreign Service Institute has created a website offering eleven different language courses for free. Languages included are: Cantonese, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Spanish, Portuguese, Serbo-Croatian and Turkish. All courses consist of audio and text lessons divided into chapters and those are divided further into [...]
those cartoons
Sunday, February 19th, 2006Surah 5:2-4
Fear of Writing
Friday, February 17th, 2006It’s like exercise. No matter how out of shape you are, if you exercise a few times a week, you’ll inevitably get fitter.
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Monday, November 28th, 2005Good Technical books for free download, includes * Linux * Java * Microsoft * C and C++ * Perl/Python * Science in general * Networking * Database * Security * Assembly Programming It also has a link to the IBM redbooks site. Bookmark It Hide Sites
Who’ll mind the mainframes?
Monday, August 29th, 2005The Boston Globe has a running a story about the maintainers of the mainframes getting older and facing retirement. One of the problems is that many computer science programs don’t include mainframes in their curricula anymore. From the article: “Amid concerns that America doesn’t produce enough technically trained young people, mainframe computer users and developers [...]
Australia Linux trademark row
Wednesday, August 24th, 2005Some background on why the Linux mark institute (and more specifically Linus Torvalds) are attempting to licence the Linux trademark in Australia. If you don’t protect a trademark, it becomes useless. thats why Kimberly-Clark don’t like you using the term Kleenex if you mean any old generic paper tissue. My understanding is that the owners [...]
State of Ajax: Progress, Challenges, and Implications for SOAs
Sunday, August 21st, 2005Ajax hasn’t even been big a year yet and already open source development tools by the dozen are pouring out. Not to mention big names like TIBCO and Microsoft already have previews on the way of full-fledged IDEs for developing Ajax applications. Ajax may be the biggest software development story of 2005. Dion Hinchcliffe has [...]
Agile Web Development with Ruby on Rails
Sunday, June 19th, 2005Learning to develop web applications with Ruby on Rails has gained a huge amount of interest lately, but for people wanting to learn Rails there are no books on the subject. That’s changed now with the pre-release of Agile Web Development with Ruby on Rails , the latest book from Dave Thomas and the author [...]
PHP date — Format a local time/date
Friday, June 17th, 2005string date ( string format [, int timestamp] )$hh = date(“H”);if ($hh > “11″) { after_midday() }; Fmt DescriptionDAY ===========================================================d Day of the month, 2 digits with leading zerosD A textual representation of a day, three lettersj Day of the month without leading zerosl A full textual representation of the day of the weekS English [...]
ajax: a new approach to web applications
Sunday, May 22nd, 2005Historicaly, there’s a big gap between the richness and responsiveness of Desktop applications and that of Web technologies. The same simplicity that enabled the Web’s rapid proliferation also creates a gap between the experiences it provides compared to the experiences users can get from a desktop application. That gap is closing. Take a look at [...]
Old PC Operating Systems
Sunday, March 20th, 2005Software doesn’t wear out The Washington Post has an article on how aging operating systems are still widely used. The article states that “The research firm IDC estimates that of the roughly 514 million paid-for copies of Windows on desktops and laptops worldwide at the end of 2004, almost 21 percent were the aging Win [...]
