There's been a small uptick in mentions of RentACoder. I subscribed to RentACoder's mailing list and what it primarily establishes is that freelance programming markets are years from maturity. The majority of RFPs are "I need a clone of xyz.com: \$200," or "I need an email program that automatically …
more ...Ted Neward scooped the MS-Sun announcement.
more ...Okay, this sounds like an April Fool's Joke, but it isn't: in the past week or so, the middle knuckle of my middle finger has started hurting. A moment ago, I just flicked the scroll bar on my mouse and had a serious shooting pain as my finger "tented": I …
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[[Good point. Does it invalidate my comments on visual programming? I don't think so; I think …
more ...Eric Newcomer doubts that visual programming is viable. I disagree. Visual programming is usually conceived to be executable UML, which is a terrible concept. I've argued against visual programming in the past, pointing out that developers value information density and won't embrace something that takes half a screen to express …
more ...Microsoft and Sun have announced that it was all a sad misunderstanding and that from now on, they're best friends for life. Okay, stop smirking and play along: If Sun and Microsoft were to decide to cooperate closely to serve the needs of the entire development community, what would be …
more ...I'm very excited to announce that as of today, April 1st 2004, I've become the world's first micro-outsourced developer. I've hired great developers in Bangalore (GMT +4.5), Cameroon (GMT +1), Brazil (GMT -3), and Vanuatu (GMT -7). My job is to write the unit tests. I post them as …
more ...After downloading the gigantic Whidbey Preview (available at MSDN Subscriber Downloads) and attempting to install it on my sacrificial machine, I reliably get a problem while installing .NET Framework 2.0: "RegSvcs.exe triggers "Memory at 0x00143cb0 tried to write to 0x00143cb0. The memory could not be 'written.'" This happens …
more ...IronPython doesn't (yet?) use lightweight code generation, a forthcoming facility in the Whidbey CLR, but Joel Pobar shows "Hello, World" using LCG.
more ...Jim Hugunin has posted a paper on IronPython, a fast Python implementation for .NET. This has triggered a cascade of posts.
The money quote: "[A]s I carried out my experiments I found the CLR to be a surprisingly good target for dynamic languages...."
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