March 2010
11 posts
Pretty sure I called Dojo "Domo" all day
The sad part is nobody noticed.
“one man’s simple is another man’s complex”
– What is “simplicity” in programming? « The Reinvigorated Programmer
(h/t buzz)
the { buckblogs :here }: Unobtrusive, yet explicit →
Jamis Buck describes a method for keeping unobtrusive JavaScript from becoming too loosely coupled. The article and code are Rails-centric, but the core technique doesn’t require Rails.
Seven Languages in Seven Weeks →
For each language, you’ll solve a nontrivial problem, using techniques that show off the language’s most important features. As the book proceeds, you’ll discover the strengths and weaknesses of the languages, while dissecting the process of learning languages quickly—for example, finding the typing and programming models, decision structures, and how you interact with them.
Intriguing.
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Windows XP has some impressive virtual memory...
If I leave RAD and a WebSphere instance running overnight, in the morning everything I access, including RAD and WS, has to be paged in.
Hg Init: a Mercurial tutorial by Joel Spolsky →
“The existence of uncertainty is not an excuse for exposing it to the user.”
– Engineer Thinking » Matt Legend Gemmell
“The mail server had a separate 80GB partition just to hold email; and it was...”
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The Great Cascade - The Daily WTF
How much of a geek am I? I was reading this humorous but true story, saw this passage, and immediately thought:
ls | grep '^q' | xargs ls -l
That’s how much.
