even though im not a programmer myself ive always enjoyed reading coding horror. okay partly because its one of feeddemons default feeds but also largely because jeff atwood just writes interesting stuff that anyone can understand programmer or not. his blog however is really nothing more then a side interest his latest project which has been occupying most of his time is a resource site for coder...
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...uo da un sito allaltro completamente in estasi per la quantita di informazioni che cerano su internet. quali siti e servizi internet usi abitualmente e quale avresti voluto inventare uso abitualmente programmin g.reddit.c om che in realta a eccezionale per chi programma percha a una community di programmazione ad alto livello non a tanto il servizio. avrei voluto inventare wikipedia percha mol...
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just to give them some googlejuice i wanted to link to the new programming community site stackoverflow.com. from their vision statement stackoverf low is sort of like the antiexpertsexchange minus the nauseainducing sleaze and quasilegal search engine gaming meets wikipedia meets programming reddit. it is by programmers for programmers with the ultimate intent of collectively increasing the sum...
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im in no way trying to conflate this with the meaning of my last blog post but after a six month gestation we just gave birth to a public website. of course im making a sly little joke here about community but i really believe in this stuff. stack overflow is as much as i could make it an effort of collective programmer community. heres the original vision statement for stack overflow from ba...
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sag ihnen nicht dass es eigentlich nicht skripting oder skri ptprogramm ierung heisst sondern programmieren mit einer dynamisch getypten sprache. lass sie in dem glauben dass hacken was mit holzverarbeitung zu tun hat oder mit dem einbruch in fremde rechnersysteme. sag ihnen nicht dass es was mit malen zu tun hat dass code schn sein kann. diskutiere nicht darueber ob jede funktion eine...
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there is nothing fun about java. every possible good facets goodness is completely predicated on the requirement that you know how to set up and or get around some soul sucking gotcha. where its been said that even a language such as perl can make easy things easy and hard things possible java seems to try to make easy thing hard and hard things infuriatingly impossible. ok i know. this will get s...
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...ut java. maybe ill report about those some other day.......
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in case this post rides a reddit or dzone wave let me start out by saying that i am both from the united states and a .net developer. now on to my regularly scheduled point im fairly certain that most people would agree that microsoft as a company is despised by a sizable segment of the software industry. since corporate politics bore me im going to skip the part about why this is the case or whet...
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one common task while browsing the web is making sure you will be able to recall a valuable information you are just looking at. this article aims to prove that social bookmarking as in delicious simpy magnolia et al. is the wrong tool for that task. clar ification according to comments here and on reddit it was obvious that my intention of this post was somehow misunderstood partly because of ...
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i saw a link on programming.reddit that was about php security. it was a few slides of which vulnerabilities a inexperienced php coder can introduce. take a look for yourself. these are the most common and quite easily exploitable holes in your garden variety of php application.now the holes in them selves arent that interesting. it is this comment i found in the discussion on reddit about the pdf...
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i was over at reddit today and found a very interesting link. an interview with bjarne stroustrup the designer of c. titled the problem with programming. now if you have a hard time figuring out my last rambling about the software industry. this is the article to read.bjarne statesi think the real problem is that we that is we software developers are in a permanent state of emergency grasping at s...
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