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SQLChess - A tutorial on thinking in sets - SQL Server Information at SQLTeam.com

Fri, 18 May 2007 18:34:25 -0700

SQLChess - A tutorial on thinking in sets - SQL Server Information at SQLTeam.com

rc3.org: When deployments go wrong

Fri, 18 May 2007 18:31:49 -0700

rc3.org: When deployments go wrong:

When deployments go wrong

Labnotes » The inevitable migration of framework coders

Mon, 14 May 2007 23:30:21 -0700

Labnotes » The inevitable migration of framework coders

This picture of Roger cracks me up.

Sun, 13 May 2007 16:24:59 -0700

This picture of Roger cracks me up.

Farewell To GCJ, Sun Hires GCJ Architect For JavaFX - Weiqi Gao's Observations

Sun, 13 May 2007 10:33:30 -0700

Farewell To GCJ, Sun Hires GCJ Architect For JavaFX - Weiqi Gao's Observations

"C18 Processor Features * 18-bit stack oriented engine * Runs VentureForth™ programming language as..."

Sat, 12 May 2007 21:31:29 -0700

“C18 Processor Features * 18-bit stack oriented engine * Runs VentureForth™ programming language as native code * Executes 1 VentureForth instruction / ns * 64 words RAM / 64 words ROM * Automatic sleep mode at”

- IntellaSys Products | www.intellasys.net

"I haven’t heard of an IDE better than Visual Studio. Do Perl and Python developers even HAVE..."

Wed, 09 May 2007 22:40:01 -0700

““I haven’t heard of an IDE better than Visual Studio. Do Perl and Python developers even HAVE an IDE, or do they just use vim or Emacs?” I haven’t heard of any walker better than the Segway. Do legs even have gyroscopes or steering wheel, or do the operators just sort of flay them about on the ground?”

- Coding Horror: Giving Up on Microsoft

"Ever since The Pragmatic Programmer, learning new languages has become a very fashionable thing..."

Mon, 07 May 2007 12:03:11 -0700

“Ever since The Pragmatic Programmer, learning new languages has become a very fashionable thing among programmers. It’s important to realize that the goal isn’t fluency in every language under the sun. The goal isn’t keeping up with the latest trends, either. The goal is good programming”

- Giles Bowkett: Languages Only Do So Much

How I Learned to Shoot the Engineers and Ship the Product (by guest blogger Andy Lawrence) « //engtech

Fri, 04 May 2007 15:28:59 -0700

How I Learned to Shoot the Engineers and Ship the Product (by guest blogger Andy Lawrence) « //engtech:

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The Radar backchannel argues that S3 and iTunes are micropayments. No, micropayments were designed to be fractions of a cent and much lower friction than clicking on a Buy Now button.

Thu, 03 May 2007 20:38:09 -0700

The Radar backchannel argues that S3 and iTunes are micropayments. No, micropayments were designed to be fractions of a cent and much lower friction than clicking on a Buy Now button.

"That poster may as well be titled “Fucked 6 Ways From Sunday,” because that’s what you’ll be if you..."

Wed, 02 May 2007 17:33:37 -0700

“That poster may as well be titled “Fucked 6 Ways From Sunday,” because that’s what you’ll be if you buy into any of this.”

- Silly season [dive into mark]

"The library is called Rebar (Ruby to Erlang Bridge And Runner). Rebar has two parts: an Erlang..."

Tue, 01 May 2007 16:17:29 -0700

“The library is called Rebar (Ruby to Erlang Bridge And Runner). Rebar has two parts: an Erlang server and a Ruby client. The server listens for JSON-RPC requests, calls the specified Erlang function, and responds with a JSON-RPC response. The Ruby client object simply accepts any method name, captures it with method_missing, wraps everything up in a JSON-RPC request, fires it off, waits for the response, and then extracts the result out of the JSON-RPC response, returning it like a normal Ruby call.”

- Ruby is Awesome—{ :ruby => “awesome” }

Sorry for the gap, I was in Rome on vacation.

Mon, 30 Apr 2007 23:43:55 -0700

Sorry for the gap, I was in Rome on vacation.

Each of these case studies spammed Google only to act surprised when they are marked as spammers in the index. They blame it on accidents or outside consultants: SEO snake-oil salesmen. I'm sure they didn't think of what they were doing as spamming but one of them sums it up when they explain: "you have to keep on the cutting edge". well, consider yourself cut.

Mon, 30 Apr 2007 23:43:18 -0700

Each of these case studies spammed Google only to act surprised when they are marked as spammers in the index. They blame it on accidents or outside consultants: SEO snake-oil salesmen. I'm sure they didn't think of what they were doing as spamming but one of them sums it up when they explain: "you have to keep on the cutting edge". well, consider yourself cut.

This bug is keeping dhcp from working on my laptop. Workaround: use a static address. no big deal.

Tue, 17 Apr 2007 21:35:09 -0700

This bug is keeping dhcp from working on my laptop. Workaround: use a static address. no big deal.

"This web site is generated entirely using .htaccess, simple CSS and XHTML, and local file system..."

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 23:12:20 -0700

“This web site is generated entirely using .htaccess, simple CSS and XHTML, and local file system navigation. We wrote it to test the feasability of powering a content management system entirely in Apache.”

- Apache Demonstration

DHH talks in metaphor now. Some rails fanboy will code an implementation of this soon.

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 22:24:17 -0700

DHH talks in metaphor now. Some rails fanboy will code an implementation of this soon.

Microsoft Google Algorithm Interview Questions [Steve: I believe almost all of these are banned now]

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 10:56:14 -0700

Microsoft Google Algorithm Interview Questions [Steve: I believe almost all of these are banned now]

"The fight for USENET was earlier — much earlier. I think the first “imminent death of..."

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 10:50:22 -0700

“The fight for USENET was earlier — much earlier. I think the first “imminent death of the net” call was about 1984, in fact. Those of us involved with the Backbone Cabal, as it became known, fought the fight for many years.”

- Chuqui 3.0: KATHY SIERRA: A history lesson from Usenet - Valleywag

"the fact that Scala is statically-typed (and potentially other aspects of Scala) led to a..."

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 10:44:11 -0700

“the fact that Scala is statically-typed (and potentially other aspects of Scala) led to a requirement of 60% of the tests that were needed for the equivilent Ruby application.”

- etapic.name » Lines of Test Code