Using a blunt instrument to sharpen your saw -- looking for the silver linings.
Ruby 1.9 approaches release -- what I want for Xmas is…
The Browser Wars return -- with a key player missing.
The E-mail Standards Project -- new spin-off from the Web Standards Project.
The big ball of mud and other architectural disasters -- how many can you spot?
Clojure -- a Lisp dialect for the JVM.
Scripting on the Java Platform -- considers the obvious suspects, but misses other options such as Scala. With a bytecode cross-compiler and a common API abstraction, it would be possible to virtualize even your VM…
Think Big -- Are we sweating the petty stuff too much?
Sequentially -- Temporal and frequency adverbs for JavaScript.
Samurai - Protecting Critical Data in Unsafe Languages
On the second time, I actually managed to get through to the end of the series. Some of that was the same media-related issues as with the previous series, but much was to do with it meandering around for a while before settling down to being a fairly standard action/thriller, the sort of thing you'd expect Bruce Willis to be appearing in.
It has a strange relationship with the manga, since episodes 20-21 re-use the setting of the chapter Phantom Fund, but cutting it jaggedly loose from context -- and yet it ends with the opening scene to the first chapter of the manga (as if to say, that's it, the manga and/or movies come next).
Mostly harmless.
Process : the true scope is unknowable -- considering the known unknowns
Can language choice assist the pursuit of happiness?
Can expressive languages make code more accessible?
(Yet another) tale of why good developers don't always make good managers.
The challenge of teaching yourself a new programming language -- of which there are plenty of candidates (Ruby, F#, Erlang...) for reboring your thought processes with
Leadership advice from WWII -- still as valid today
Developing an STS with AD FS 2 (part 1)
Ruby.Net 0.9 release -- compiles your Ruby code to an assembly, which the DLR doesn't as yet.
Seven hard lessons from writing software
When to choose WinForms vs WPF vs ... -- round-up of old and new .Net UI frameworks
Twenty years ago this month -- I didn't record the actual day -- we disposed of our TV, because the programs were getting to be so dire, and we switched the thing on so little that it was costing us £5 or more per program (more because we forgot half the few things we even planned to watch).
What amazes me is from hearing all the media reviews -- and the occasional glimpse in solo hotel rooms, when I don't have any internet access -- is that things have become so much worse over those intervening years. Very definitely, “57 channels and nothing on…”
So -- Kill your TV!
[Now playing - Chill]
Parsing integers efficiently -- using no types wider than we are parsing for
Writing testable code is managing complexity
Why programming is hopeless and futile -- stumbling around in failure space
Why does the bad code I see never have anything as beautiful as really evil 'C'?
Free programming tips that are worth every penny.
Design is inevitable. But mind your metaphors while doing so.
Loading WCF configuration from different files on the client side.
Unexpected Security Exception in ASP.Net -- scope your impersonations carefully.
Android and Google's non-JVM Java.
Re-throwing exceptions in Python.
XP style widgets with wxRuby on Windows.
Just back from another session at the dentist of pre-work for getting last year's root-canal tooth crowned.
The gum is almost healed now that the temporary is holding the tooth together, but it's not yet ready for the rest of the work. So this was a session of tooth-filing. Not filling, filing. So I have been being ground down…
Over the last few years fillings that have meshed locally when I bite on the affected area, with my mouth full of cotton wool padding had managed to throw the global articulation off so that I could only bite on one side at a time. Since the root canal last year, I also had a tooth that was known to be cracked and I didn't want to put pressure on (even though it felt misshapen), which threw load onto the other side, and eventually caused cracking that led to Septembers' root canal.
Now, after an hour of biting onto articulating paper, and drilling to remove bits of fillings, I can now not only bite evenly on both sides, but, once more, bring my front teeth together (from the default slight underbite) to do things like tear sellotape!
W00t!!
Planning Fallacy -- Reality, it turns out, usually delivers results somewhat worse than the "worst case".
Seven Rules of Unobtrusive Javascript
Programming conventions as signals -- think Contract Bridge
For my 800th post, following the latest craze:
This blog's DOM (just before this post) as a graph
Isn't it complicated!
blue: for links (the A tag)
red: for tables (TABLE, TR and TD tags)
green: for the DIV tag
violet: for images (the IMG tag)
yellow: for forms (FORM, INPUT, TEXTAREA, SELECT and OPTION tags)
orange: for linebreaks and blockquotes (BR, P, and BLOCKQUOTE tags)
black: the HTML tag, the root node
gray: all other tags
The applet is at http://www.aharef.info/2006/05/websites_as_graphs.htm for generating your own.
H/t Devil's Kitchen.
[Now playing - Chill]
Managed Code preloader for Silverlight
Pattern matching and useful anamorphisms in Ruby
Functional Javascript 1.0.2 release
A problem with an excessively coupled design -- Server 2008 headless.
A Silverlight physics engine -- cool.
IronPython -- using with and COM -- playing nicely together.
IronPython 2α6 released.
Rhino Mocks + Extension Methods + MVC == Crazy Delicious
Idioms for composing games in Etoys
Category Theory for the Java Programer -- but it works for C# too
Some screenreaders ignore display:none
Really Simple Anamorphisms in Ruby
The Eee-PC -- neat big boy's toy : a "no moving parts" mini-laptop
Visual Studio 2008 RTM and licensing announcement -- very interesting news about licensing changes
Memory leak debugging in JRuby -- you have to put out the garbage for it to be collected
Bram's Law -- oh so true.
More on the breakdown of the naive noun/verb OOP model
AD FS documentation update on MSDN
3 hot uses for HttpContext.Current.Items “They” won’t tell you about
A cautionary tale of globalization -- what is "i".ToUpper() ?
DOM Compatibility tables updated
Don't Click Here : The art of Hyperlinking
JRuby 1.1 β 1 released, and is now faster than MRI -- and also 1.0.2 is out too (though it still has some easy bugs to fix)
Content and presentation -- web typography and the separation of concerns
The new ASP.Net MVC model -- developer's notes
Are your web pages POSH? -- Hints and tips for clean and accessible design
Using ASP.Net objects and not literal strings -- no magic constants
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