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All right, so I'm a little slow on the uptake. My complacency has allowed me to overlook IRC Chat, Web Mobile, and who knows what else. Well I do know at least one other thing: blogs.
Sure you could find my first entry in Bits back in 2006, but I must admit that my perception of how this tool...
Read More | Oct 27th, 2007
For better or worse, first impressions tend to be lasting ones. But the world does not stand still, so occasionally it may be a good idea to reevaluate things you already think you know.
My earliest impression of “chat” was formed during my days as a single guy in the mid-90’s. A friend had...
Read More | Oct 12th, 2007 | Comments: 1 | Last Comment: Oct 14th, 2007
After several months of use, The Thingamagadget brought up new issues for me. It was being used for wireless email access, and the problem we discovered was that web sites, in the day of broadband, is full of content!
That's great when you're on a PC, especially the newer better ones, and not to...
Read More | Oct 8th, 2007
I am known for getting off on a tangent, or perhaps it's the onset of AAADD. This all started this past Christmas when I was trying to come up with gift ideas...
I'd decided to try to be cool for my age and get an MP3 player for my older girl. While it was wrapped and under the tree, I set about...
Read More | Oct 8th, 2007
Two-year-olds. They have no patience.
You know who has less patience than a two-year-old? The parent of a two-year-old. In the car. Heading out for a long drive for a holiday weekend.
Several years ago my wife bought a DVD player before it was really as commonplace as it is today. I hate spending...
Read More | Dec 27th, 2006 | Comments: 1 | Last Comment: Dec 28th, 2006
If you've never heard of the following inane code, do a search for "Rob Pike rules". (Or just do that anyway, it'll be good for you.)
Since that kinda thing is so well known, we don't actually see this kind of stuff in real life, right?
#define ZERO 0
Don't laugh.
enum { ZERO, ONE, TWO, THREE,...
Read More | Sep 9th, 2006 | Comments: 2 | Last Comment: Sep 12th, 2006
In a number of text and other references, the author stops short of recommending good practice (a blackbird, perhaps?), and plenty of code and its programmers suffer for it. I took a stab at explaining the basics once before, but I felt like revisiting it again. Since I abandoned the use of a...
Read More | Sep 9th, 2006 | Comments: 5 | Last Comment: Jul 28th, 2007
This is just too good as it stands. Peter Seebach concisely covers just about everything.Part 1: What's in a type?
Part 2: Floating point and derived types
Part 3: Implementation details
Part 4: Portability and pitfallsI can't improve on it except to try to expand the audience.
Read More | Sep 9th, 2006
The following came to mind a while ago in regard to aspiring programmers who visit forums such as this.
And why some programmers remain here to learn from the magpies, and why we see a lot of thrushes and blackbirds pass through -- and perhaps a few notable turtle-doves as well.
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At my place...
Read More | Sep 7th, 2006 | Comments: 2 | Last Comment: Sep 19th, 2007
Many years ago I was wandering through some SNMP code trying to port it to a Rabbit 2000. I'd guess that not many are familiar with this device -- it's an 8-bitter, and I had no operating system or dynamic memory. So there were several issues in addition to the Dynamic C dialect I had to use to...
Read More | Aug 12th, 2006 | Comments: 1 | Last Comment: Aug 16th, 2006
