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In this installment we talk to Kate Gregory, long-time C++ developer, trainer and consultant. Further adventures with the coders behind the code (and books, and webcasts, and...)
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Every developer faces a situation wherein an application requires an update—for code the developer didn’t write. It’s not that the other developer purposely created a hard-to-maintain application. It’s that you don’t know the other developer’s thought process in putting the application together, making it difficult for you to figure the code out without some help. This article provides some tips to ease the pain and get you started more quickly. It worked on his machine...
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In his On Long Noses, Sampling, Synthesis, Design and Innovation presentation Bill Buxton discussed the origin of new technologies and the implications of that process on designers. Here are my notes from his talk. Until something actually happens, no one believes it can happen.
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I started work with “Xaml-based” platforms in the pre-Beta days of WPF, so I’ve been working with this technology longer than most. Back then I was utterly awed and inspired by it’s capabilities. Today I’m frustrated and sometimes outraged. Welcome to version and platform hell.
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Dataflow programming is a style that describes your data processing as data flowing through a graph of operations, in contrast to the usual imperative processing style. It invites you to think of data operations as a collection of black boxes, linked together by a runtime which takes care of moving data from one box to the next. Processing asynchronous messages, the easy way.
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I was thinking earlier today about what makes me happy--really, truly happy. The desire to learn new things. The desire to build something that has never before been built. The desire to hunt down problems--and then solve them. Programmers get to spend a majority of our time learning things and solving problems.
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The File Transfer Protocol, otherwise known as FTP is 40 years old today. Originally put forth as the RFC 114 Specification on April 16, 1971, FTP (and the various iterations inspired from it) is as heavily used today as it was back then by people and companies all over the world. mput out all those candles and mkdir a wish.
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Quote: mput out all those candles and mkdir a wish.
Or we can upload Forty Files on server.
Happy Programming
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Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the world wide web, has urged internet users to demand their personal data from online giants such as Google and Facebook to usher in a new era of highly personalised computer services "with tremendous potential to help humanity". What hath man wrought?
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Steve Jobs did not wander aimlessly into the wilderness after being ousted from Apple in 1985. Most important, his work with the two companies he led during that time, NeXT and Pixar, turned him into the kind of man, and leader, who would spur Apple to unimaginable heights upon his return. NeXT, Pixar and the return to Apple.
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As Microsoft works on Windows Phone, Windows 8 and Xbox, users will be pulled back into its orbit, one product at a time. The key to Microsoft's play is patience.
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There may not be a giant space baby, but these 2001 LEGO models by Jason Allemann are impressive nonetheless. That's a six-foot-long, 3,873-piece, 1:60 scale model of the Discovery One spaceship and he's published the build guide so you can make your own. That's a very nice model, Dave. I think you've improved a great deal.
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Over the years, I’ve started thinking that participating in the open source community is like traveling on a path, toward becoming not only better programmers, but also becoming better people by working together. The most important part of every open source project is the people.
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Pass the sick bag; I am going to vomit.
Terrence Dorsey wrote: The most important part of every open source project is the people.
Really? Try running any project without people: see how far you get: sometimes articles are just a loose collection of words that, when added up, say nothing at all.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
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My Dad (yep, the same guy who composed the music for the original Karateka and Prince of Persia) called from New York to tell me he was doing some spring cleaning and had shipped me a carton of old games and other stuff of mine he’d found in the back of a closet. The carton arrived yesterday. My jaw dropped when I saw what was inside. And now the code is on GitHub for you to enjoy.
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If you advocate omitting sensible syntax as parsers will fix that for us, you are not a visionary developer. You waste your and our time. And you come across as a semi-colon. Write code for devs, not parsers.
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Most web developers, myself included, do the bulk of their development and debugging in a single web browser, whether Chrome, Firefox, Safari or IE. Using web standards is the best way to get more mileage for your site. Locking yourself into any vendor, will eventually code your site into a corner that will maroon you into incompatibility. Make the web for everyone.
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An esoteric language made up of only semicolons. You can't escape the semicolon monster! ;;;;;;;;;;;
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So, it has come to this
Attempting to load signature...
A NullSignatureException was unhandled.
Message: "No signature exists"
All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
Carl Sagan
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But it has got spaces.
Some people hate white space!
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Attempting to load signature...
A NullSignatureException was unhandled.
Message: "No signature exists"
All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
Carl Sagan
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That's what I thought!
Attempting to load signature...
A NullSignatureException was unhandled.
Message: "No signature exists"
All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
Carl Sagan
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