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The REST is Salient

Michael Flanakin reacted to  of my SDTimes article on the (relative) failure of dynamic languages within .NET with an interesting proposal: Perhaps every namespace could have a default "utility" class that hides OO complexity. There's even a tiny bit of a precedent in that .NET attributes named SomeAttribute are exposed …

In a comment on a previous post, Alex Peake warns that in searching for what Jaron Lanier calls "biomimetic" programming metaphors, "we must be careful not to fall into the trap of early flight pioneers - that of trying to emulate birds (too closely) in order to build a flying machine …

Quick links for a dictionary of algorithms and data structures and a book on exact string matching algorithms. (via HotLinks) More bedtime reading ... via [Curiosity is bliss]

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p dir=ltr> Definitely a data-structure theme going on here lately...

In my continuing quest to install XP-64 on my Athlon laptop, I just tried Virtual PC 2004. I get the message "Attempting to load an X86-64 operating system, however this CPU is not compatible with X86-64 mode." which is misleading at best. There aren't any obvious settings I can change …

As much as I love writing code, I realized long ago that it's really the act of bending my computer to my will that I really love. Programming's just the only way to really do that. After a few decades, you'd have thought we'd have come up with something better …

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p dir=ltr> Holy Inkstain! Okay, I entered my Outlook plug-in that gives you ink email without using Word in …

Speaking of MSDN, here's an article on Profile-Guided Optimization, which they claim often delivers a 20% performance boost for the price of a couple instrumented runs.

Scott Mitchell's MSDN series on data structures is quite good. His latest, on graphs, is a must-read for those who lament the end of "design the data-structures first."