That green line is the current situation. Whee!!!!!

I checked every programming book I have on my Kindle: Hillegass's Cocoa Programming, Odersky et al.'s Programming in Scala, and a couple Pragmatic Programmer books -- none "trigger" the monospaced font now supported by the Kindle. I suppose the "good" news is that there are not many programming books for …

~~A mixed bag:~~

The Kindle has Greek characters, but not complete math (in the image below, there should be a ⇔ \<=> character).

~~It converts Courier (at least) to monospaced, but does not auto-convert Consolas:~~

As you can see, neither the Courier nor the Consolas work (just look at the difference in …

The recent kerfuffle between “Uncle Bob” Martin and Joel Spolsky involves the SOLID Principles,some object-oriented design guidelines that compress into a pleasing acronym.

While there are weaknesses in the mainstream OOP languages, I believe that OOP has a great advantage in that it is teachable. You can start with …

Mathematica is one of the most impressive pieces of software I’ve ever used. I use it any time I can find an excuse, which is unfortunately not that often (it’s surprising how rarely math intrudes upon the actual day-to-day life of the software developer).

In line with its …

My latest column for SD Times argues that Python is “your best bet for easy access to arbitrary values of interesting.”

Paul Vick nails it:

[W]riting a new language, domain-specific or not, is a lot like opening a restaurant: everyone thinks they can do it because they’ve eaten at one and it looks like fun.

via DSLs: Definitely a bad idea! .

He's getting some heat in the comments for …

Pretty much every link on my site was rewritten by Das Blog for logging purposes. The conversion to Word Press has broken all of those. I am going to have to write a utility to convert them and I won't be able to get to that for several days at …

My just-purchased SV102ED is my first "real" telescope and is a purchase I've put off for decades (ever since I realized what a huge \$ gap there was between a mall-store telescope and a decent one). After a lot of research, I went for the SV102ED "clearance special" with the M1 …

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