Google Just Keeps Getting Better
Friday, December 10th, 2004There's been a major blogstorm about Google Suggest today, and with good reason: it auto-completes possible search terms as you type.
Archive for December, 2004
There's been a major blogstorm about Google Suggest today, and with good reason: it auto-completes possible search terms as you type.
Where Are They Now?
Friday, December 10th, 2004A list of the first hundred .COM domains ever registered. Where are they all now...
Greg’s Best of 2004
Friday, December 10th, 2004As some of you may know, I'm rather fond of reading. With Christmas coming up, I thought I'd share my favorite books of 2004. The first few are technical; the others are, well, rather a mixed bag, actually. Enjoy... Programming Michael C. Feathers: Working Effectively with Legacy Code. Prentice-Hall PTR, 2005, 0131177052, 434 ...
Build Your Own Weather Channel
Thursday, December 9th, 2004Theoretical computer scientists spend a lot of time thinking about whether computations are feasible or not. Personally, I'm much more interested in how seemingly innocuous bits of technology can suddenly make entire classes of problems feasible, where before they could only be solved with heroic effort. For example, I can ...
Freeware List
Wednesday, December 8th, 2004I'm too cheap to buy my readers gifts for Christmas, but I will forward this list.
Java != Python
Wednesday, December 8th, 2004These two articles from Phillip Eby are a good summary of the differences between Python-think and Java-think.
Programming Language Popularity
Wednesday, December 8th, 2004Take it with a large grain of salt, but this article surveys the popularity of various programming languages.
For Those of You Who Like Games (and Build Systems)
Sunday, December 5th, 2004This article from ACM Queue ran earlier this year.