Notes"Scott Stevenson interviews Aaron Hillegass about the new edition of Aaron's book, programmers' fear of the NIB file, and why there aren't more Macs in corporate America."Unfurl
Notes"The Subversion project shouldn't spend any more time trying to make Subversion a better version control tool for non-huge open source projects."FeedEmbedUnfurl
Notes"The Java Runtime Analysis Toolkit is a low overhead, easy to use, open source performance profiler for the Java platform. JRat monitors an application's execution and persists performance measurements. This data can then be viewed and analyzed using theUnfurl
Notes"When you see software which shows great attention to detail, keep in mind that some poor sleep-deprived geek spent weeks refining those details, even though they'd rather be playing Rock Band."Unfurl
Notes"Simons' Basic offers not only a solution to the problem but almost makes the 64 into an entirely new computer. (Probably the one it should have been in the first place.)"Unfurl
NotesIdentifying more "chunks" and amassing a personal repertoire of patterns and things to better work with your "7 plus or minus 2" memory bufferFeedUnfurl
Notes"After seeing a particularly bad trim implementation, I decided to do a little research towards finding the most efficient approach."FeedEmbedUnfurl
Notes"In my experience, a typical Enterprise application consists of very little “Business Logic”, but mostly Conversion Logic, so I suppose that conversions are still all in a day’s work."Unfurl
Notes"The Commentator uses revolutionary real-time language processing to actually grok your code and add the necessary comments on the fly. No more doco to slow you down."Unfurl
Notes"atariarchives.org makes books, information, and software for Atari and other classic computers available on the Web. Everything here is available with permission of the copyright holders."Unfurl
Notes"Simons' BASIC was an extension to BASIC 2.0 for the Commodore 64 home computer. Written by 16-year-old British programmer David Simons in 1983, it was distributed by Commodore in cartridge format."Unfurl
Notes"We should expect to learn. Sophisticated tools require study and effort, and they repay that effort by letting us do things we could not do otherwise"Unfurl
Notes"PyGPU is a compiler that lets you write image processing programs in Python that execute on the graphics processing unit (GPU) present in modern graphics cards."Unfurl
Notes"Once you get a piece of code to the point where you believe it works - it’s passing its tests - go back over it and edit it. That is, go back and edit it for clarity, flow, and style. Just as if it were an essay."Unfurl
Notes"Today we have launched Wrox Blox, a new product for programmers that hopefully will strike a chord with a market that often looks to the web for fast, bite-sized content."Unfurl
Notes"Wrox Blox are short, electronic-only, downloadable, and typically going to be on hot cutting edge topics. For short, these first few range from about 20-40 pages ... And, here's something I think you'll find cool: they're DRM free."Unfurl
Notes"Do ... 1. Get a Benevolent Dictator ... 2. Make the Program Usable In Its Default State ... 3. Design Around Tasks ... 4. Write a Plug-In Architecture ... 5. User Testing, User Testing, User Testing!!"Unfurl
Notes"Think about the benefits of having a single scripting language that you can use reliably on the server, in browsers, for applications ... and scripting tasks ..., and also the same language for data encapsulation and transfer as well."Unfurl
Notes"the opening gambit for the vast majority of development efforts I have participated in where I have not been amongst the first generation of programmers to work on the project."Unfurl
Notes"Do not be intimidated by the prospect of over 16,000 user-defined instructions. Instead, welcome the ability to microprogram any or all of your favorite machine architectures into the virtual machine now available."Unfurl
Notes"I'd say that many of today's current hot trends in programming are a direct result of a backlash *against* everything that Java has come to represent"FeedUnfurl
Notes"I’ve seen plenty of studies regarding the success of projects and correlating their success with project size, I can’t recall seeing one correlating success with whether or not the project is a rewrite."Unfurl
Notes"LuaObjCBridge is an Objective-C framework providing access to the Lua scripting language from within programs which use Apple's Cocoa framework."Unfurl
Notes"The main purpose for this web site is to produce legal future reference for those people who would like to be involved with assembly programming side of the C64 scene."Unfurl
Notes"here's a quick lexicon of what computer programmers generally mean when they're talking about how hard some problem is, starting with the most extreme"Unfurl
Notes"Guantanamo is a tool that can delete all code lines that are not covered by tests. All code is guilty until tested innocent. Send the untested code to Guantanamo!"Unfurl
Notes"The net effect of this is that event handlers and tagged data attached to an object become slots in the way they're used in prototype-based programming."Unfurl
Notes"what kind of advice I would give if I could meet myself at his age, in order to guide the young Allison into a promising engineering career."Unfurl
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