Joel in Action
Monday, November 29th, 2004Check this out---a web seminar by the inimitable Joel Spolsky.
Archive for November, 2004
Check this out---a web seminar by the inimitable Joel Spolsky.
Google, Search, and Security
Monday, November 29th, 2004This article from Bruce Schneier (the thinking person's expert on computer security) is a thoughtful discussion of the law of unintended consequences.
Useful Meta-Feed
Friday, November 26th, 2004Erik's Linkblog is a pretty good collection of interesting links---I'm reading about 20% of the items he anthologizes, which is a pretty high hit rate for me.
Is Code Optimization Relevant?
Thursday, November 25th, 2004http://www.cs.umd.edu/~pugh/IsCodeOptimizationRelevant.pdf
Lightweight Languages
Thursday, November 25th, 2004There's a conference on lightweight languages at MIT next week. Wish I could go... Oh, and I've decided on a word: C++, Java, C#, and their kin are "sturdy" languages.
Languages vs. Tools
Tuesday, November 23rd, 2004An interesting article from Oliver Steele on the differences between language geeks and tool users. Worth reading, even if you don't agree with all of his conclusions.
Spolsky on Calendars?
Monday, November 22nd, 2004A little over a year ago, Joel Spolsky wrote an excellent article entitled The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!). I've been searching the web for something as informative, and readable, on dates, times, calendrical calculations, and related mysteries. ...
I Need a Word…
Monday, November 22nd, 2004In the last couple of years, people have taken to calling Perl, Python, Ruby, and their kin "agile" languages. The term is pure marketing hype: "agile" is obviously a good thing, and it implies (without actually saying) that compiled, statically-typed languages like C++, Java, and C# are clumsy, plodding ...
Writer’s Block
Friday, November 19th, 2004Those of you who are about to dive into your final reports may find this article on writer's block useful.
CUSEC’05
Tuesday, November 16th, 2004I just found out about the Canadian Undergraduate Software Engineering Conference. It looks like a great idea---anyone ever been, or know anything about it?