Another cross-platform development solution hit the geek news sites recently: Lina. According to their website,
With LINA, a single executable written and compiled for Linux can be run with native look and feel on Windows, Mac OS X, and UNIX operating systems.
Native look and feel, eh? Not likely. There’s a clue right [...]
The plus character (+) is a valid character in an email address.
Stop telling me it isn’t.
Actually, Web Developers in general, please take note of that fact. Half of you are guilty of the same thing.
But much more importantly, don’t let me sign up with a ‘+’ in my email address if your “forgot your [...]
I’m not a particularly smart guy. I don’t retain information well, and I’m prone to intuition over reason. I do math slowly, not in firey blasts.
That’s one reason I like programming. I can get away with being mediocre 90% of the time. For the price of persistence, I get to seem [...]
I work as a software engineer. It’s a pretty swank gig. I get paid to build ideas.
Building, of course, has traditionally been a physical enterprise. If I suddenly time-shifted into an English-speaking village at the turn of the ninth century and tried to convince a passing gentleperson I build ideas [...]
I’d like to learn Lisp.
I’ve dabbled in Scheme, I’ve poked at Python, but I’d really like to sit down and write a substantial piece of Lisp code [1].
Lisp seems to be the ultimate judo in algorithms, and there are no end of essays on the Web to convince you of that. Lisp practitioners almost [...]