It may just be me, but just about every question posed on the C/C++ forum is some variation of this: "Does <so and so> work?" What a silly question! Apparently the days where pioneering spirits would actually take the time to compile and run some code to see if it worked, or thought about a... (Read More)

Hello, my name is Julienne, and I'm an addict. I've been clean for about 14 hours, but that won't last. Anime is one of my favorite passtimes; I even have "Anime Expenditures" as a primary category of my budget. Amazon loves me because I'm constantly ordering box sets of my favorite series.... (Read More)

I'm a card carrying Java hater. Many times I have been approached by advocates of the devil's latest spawn (that would be Java if you weren't paying attention) demanding to know why I loath the language that they hold so dear. As many times as I have been approached, I've put the fool in his place... (Read More)

I'm a firm believer in the close relationship of written language and programming. There's a good reason that we use a "language" to program computers; the similarity of nouns and verbs to objects and functions is striking. Every time I turn around, I see ways of applying the skills of writing good... (Read More)