- Experimenting with visitmix.com lab’s Gestalt
- Saint Shenanigans
- Speed, Quality, Cheap. Pick any Two.
- State of Software Design in NSW HSC
- It is not the Apple Tablet, it is the Store
- Facial Update
- Why the Quietness?
- What does Transparency mean to me?
- The long search for the perfect WPF Twitter Client. Over.
- #auteched week begin
- Twenty Years Ago Today
- Where is Nick?
- Sanity Prevails
- 28 Weeks. 18 Weeks Down
- New Windows Home Server
- Japan Photo
- Microsoft and Web 2.0 Stuff
- Bing Box on your Website or Blog
- New.CloudApp();
- Fifth Barcamp Sydney, Saturday June 27th
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Practical Coding
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009Recently, in a meeting, someone stated that I had never been a professional programmer. At the time I agreed, however after some thinking (aka: L’esprit_de_l’escalier) disagreed with that assesment. So, time to write some of the projects I have completed during many years in this industry.
To note: many of these systems lasted months through to […]
PDF via OpenXML, PowerShell…">Generating PDF via OpenXML, PowerShell…
Thursday, June 28th, 2007Colleague in crime, and fellow Aussie (well, at least he’s naturalised now), Dave Glover has a post that crosses some old territories of mine.
Using Powershell, .Net, OpenXML and some code that I barely understand because it’s not Python; he’s been able to generate 60 to 70 documents per second.
Linking it here as it intersects the […]
DLR">More DLR
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007John Lam, why Dynamic Languages from John Udell podcast:
expressing my intent in the code.
Interesting interview between Tim Heuer and John Lam on Ruby as a part of the announcements yesterday.
The Ruby support from Microsoft is more than just Silverlight; it also crosses into the server and the client, outside the browser.
21st Century SmallTalk: IronPython 2.0 in […]
Second Channel 9 Interview: Compiler Geeks
Thursday, April 12th, 2007I loved doing this interview: two rock stars in the same room! Thanks to Joel Pobar and John Gough for their time last month.
John Gough is a world-respected expert on Compilers — a sorcerer if you will; and Joel Pobar is one of his “apprentices” who went on to work on the .NET team in Redmond.
http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=299901
If […]
Tired of the same old languages?
Tuesday, April 10th, 2007Tired of the same-old programming languages?
Sick of the Ruby vs Python, C# vs the world, dynamic vs static language arguments?
Time to learn a new language for the fans of Björk Guðmundsdóttir: Fjölnir
And fans of the Vostok program: Glagol
Now for the battle: which is better for web application development, and do they have web frameworks? Fight.
Watching the Language Wars
Thursday, September 14th, 2006Today, 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 […]
Debugging the Spirit
Sunday, January 25th, 2004Imagine debugging a system from a bazillion miles away? Flash RAM seems to be the root cause for the Spirit to go into multiple rounds of rebooting.
Another rover on the ground, a stranger in a strange place.
