I had put off buying a telescope my entire adult life because I knew that you had to spend a good amount of money for quality and that, when it comes to a hobby that revolves around fleeting glimpses of faint and fuzzy objects, you must have confidence in your …
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HTML is typically formatted to show structural containment:
<h1>Topic</h1>
<p>Some paragraph.</p>
<p>Next para.</p>
<ul>
<li>item 1</li>
<li>item 2</li>
</ul>
Code is typically formatted to show flow-of-control:
node = tree.append "Topic 1"
node.append "Some paragraph."
node.append "Next para."
list …I have recently finished an engagement with a client and am footloose and fancy free.
If anyone is looking for an excellent developer with an object-oriented bias and a deep belief that to improve productivity teams should concentrate on quality, please drop me a line at lobrien "at" knowing "dot …
more ...Google Code Blog: Introducing Closure Tools.
Given Google's resources, goals, and products, this automatically becomes a leading candidate as a "standard library" for developers doing JavaScript work (i.e., anyone working with the Web). Not sure of its overlap / incompatibility with other major libraries, but this will definitely reward study …
more ...Introducing Debugging for MonoTouch - Miguel de Icaza.
I've been very impressed by MonoTouch and MonoDevelop for iPhone programming: it's a great combination of the CocoaTouch APIs (which are very nice) and the C# programming language (which is my favorite mainstream language if you don't think that Ruby has crossed the …
more ...The 15th anniversary of the release of Design Patterns led to the following interviews:
Design Patterns 15 Years Later: An Interview with Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, and Ralph Johnson
Grady Booch on Design Patterns, OOP, and Coffee
I posted two old articles that were perennial Google link-bait:
Programming Sabre in C#, Java, and XML
I'd lost the articles as part of switching from DasBlog to WordPress.
more ...[/hosts is defeated]{style="color: #ff0000;"} using MacSpeech Dictate. Well, that was not very successful first sentence, was it?
This blog post is being dictated using MacSpeech Dictate. That's more like it.
I am using the jawbone Bluetooth headset, connected to my Mac. Actually, the word was "A." not "the …
more ...I don't know if this is new to Snow Leopard, but I just paired my Jawbone Bluetooth headset with my Mac Pro desktop as the input/output audio device and it works! Sound quality for playback is not great (I don't think I'll be listening to much music this way …
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