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Contest to produce JavaScript demos no more than 1Kb Slashdot links to this now concluded contest that sort of reminds me of the demo scene in terms of the constraint to bum down code as much as...
View ArticleA New, Java Based Parallel Language
The EE Times links to the announcement from the Universal Parallel Computing Research Center (UPCRC) at the University of Illinois of the Deterministic Parallel Java project. The broad goal of our...
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IBM and Oracle agree to Java pact , New York Times Bits Blog Telnet like tool for HTTP Via Nat’s Four Short Links at O’Reilly Radar. He remarks it looks like a useful teaching tool, which it no doubt...
View Articlefeeds | grep links > Hotels Held to ISP Regulations, Another Interactive HTTP...
Dutch hotels must register as ISPs , Slashdot Tracking social influence through Facebook apps, Ars Technica An alternate interactive HTTP tool Nat’s Four Short Links at O’Reilly Radar today included a...
View ArticleQuick Security Alerts for Week Ending 10/31/2010
Using the cloud to deliver security, ReadWriteWeb Facebook private pages still accessible, The Register New programming language with security baked right in, Slashdot Flaw allows bypassing of iPhone...
View ArticleDemocratization of Coding
Clive Thompson at Wired has an interesting suggestion, that coding should be accessible enough for anyone with an idea to be able to readily be able to implement it. He uses the example of an app that...
View ArticleNext Volume of Knuth’s Master Work is in Print
Slashdot has the news, that the next volume in the definitive series by renowned computer scientist, Donald Knuth, is now available in print. Knuth’s books have a somewhat mythic status amongst many...
View ArticleMicrosoft Enters the Parallel Programming Fray
If ever there was a sign a particular area of development was going mainstream, it is the entry of Microsoft into the space. Rik Myslewksi at The Register has a somewhat breathless write up of...
View ArticleRant on the Failure of Programming to be Pragmatic
A listener sent me a link to this rant, The State of the Art is Terrible, by Zack Morris. If you can wade through the technical humbuggery, I think there is a useful point. Several decades after the...
View ArticleMeasurement Lab and Google Summer of Code 2012
I rarely post directly about my day job but wanted to reach out that firmly on my head for a second since I know there are a fair number of hackers in amongst my readers, several of whom I have heard...
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Sense of Scale
Seahorse Tail fractal by Wikipedia user, Wolfgangbeyer CC-BY-SA What is high quality code? I have been asked this question now a couple of times in my current job search. I usually go back to my...
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TCLP 2014-12-21 A Sense of Scale and Getting Back Up to Speed
This is an episode of The Command Line Podcast. In this episode, I share a couple more essays. Before the essays, I help spread the request for support from the GnuPG project. You can donate here. The...
View ArticleGetting Back Up to Speed
I had three hours to write a JavaScript single page application that implemented a very simple Reddit client in the browser. I was assured I would likely not need more than one hour. At the end of the...
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If It Sounds Right
When I first starting learning guitar, before I had a teacher and was just using books and videos to learn on my own, I worried whether I was learning good technique. I admit to obsessing a little bit...
View ArticleHope and Fear in the World of vim
For some reason, I decided to step back from any integrated development environments at work and just use my preferred power editor of choice, vim. If you are unfamiliar, an IDE is a very powerful...
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