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T40T, 6th June 2008 to 9th June 2008

Sunday, June 8th, 2008

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Time to start C# familiarisation, this long weekend is the weekend to start. My guide is the book: “Pro C# 2008 and the .Net 3.5 Platform” written by Andrew Troelson
Having last been semi-professional in Java about 10 years ago, there are many similarities. But lots of new platform learnings. Unix shell, paths and [...]

Our Valuable Virtual Meta-verse Future

Thursday, September 21st, 2006

In 1988 Mitchell Waite sent me a small paperback to read: Vernor Vinge's True Names. I was a mere, lowly Hypertalk programmer from Adelaide, South Australia. He was an important person.
This book has stuck in the neurons, and now the virtual is becoming real. It really goes to show how hard science fiction depicts a [...]

Watching the Language Wars

Thursday, September 14th, 2006

Today, at least in the US, it is Programmer's Day.
Maybe it should be called "International Programming Language Peace Day". The level of advocacy for various programming languages reaches rhetorical heights last seen during the one of the not-so-successful 18th century revolutions.
When not speaking to humans, other programmers to reading the latest advocacy on their language [...]

SVG,C#

Thursday, February 20th, 2003

What a strange day. Spent the morning doing "sales management" stuff (part of my new job) and the afternoon looking at SVG, C# and debugging SOAP/Webservices style communication with the Adobe Graphics Server.
Cari pointed this out: Photoshop Camera Raw and JPEG2000 plugins for Photoshop 7.0. These are purchaseable downloads from adobe.com. Camera Raw gives [...]