Maybe the readers of my blog are more astute (and better looking!) than average, but I was happy that several comments to my recent post on type inference were properly dismissive of what one called "the static vs. dynamic holy war." As I said when writing about the myth of …
more ...Bill Venners, recently intrigued by Scala, talks about the \<a href="http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp%3fthread%3d209353"" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">advantages of type inference in this post. Type inference means that type assignments are implicit but static (that is, the programmer need not "finger type …
more ...Comes a time in every performance-oriented programmer's life when you can speed things up tremendously by working directly with bits. In such a situation, this page of bit twiddling hacks would be very useful: Bit Twiddling Hacks (via \<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7er/LessIsBetter/%7e3/130989829/drjflam"" target …
more ...Nice: A plug-in for the invaluable \<a href="http://www.aisto.com/roeder/dotnet/"" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Lutz Roeder's Reflector tool that allows you to view Silverlight source: The Electron Sculptor : View Source Reflector tool for .NET Silverlight Sites (via David Ing)
more ..."7. Windows XP: Switching User During Capture.
Never do this. Very bad things will happen."
-- Pinnacle Studio 11 Readme.doc
more ...Microsoft's Surface is estimated to cost \$10K in its first incarnation. I've already had an interesting conversation with an entrepreneur friend who has an application that he thinks would be fantastic on Surface, but \$10K for the hardware makes it a non-starter. Although I'm sure Surface will eventually cost less …
more ...Alan Zeichick, commenting on the release of Oracle DB 11G Beta ranks the major databases as:
I've never been a fan of DB2, but Oracle DB is a rock and I would never hesitate to recommend it. (This despite my involvement with Oracle's abysmal XML-based …
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more ...Jakob Nielsen, the usability guru, argues that \<a href="http://www.useit.com/alertbox/articles-not-blogs.html"" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">experts should not blog, as blogging an opinion is a commodity display of knowledge, but rather they should write longer articles, as well-researched and argued articles lie outside the …
more ...Lava has reemerged at Pu'u O'o vent, creating a vast, slowly circulating lake of lava, as captured from the USGS cams at dawn on 7/8/07. During the day, it doesn't look like much, but try the \<a href="http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/cam/"" target="_blank" rel="noopener …
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