I’m almost done with my first semester teaching a high-school Java programming class. My perspective on teaching Java is different now than it was after I had just finished going through my classes in college that taught Java. Some of it is that there is a substantial difference between a college class and a high [...]
GOP Vixen: Great American Shopfest! Oh yes. Finally. Someone has come up with the same idea I had on how to deal with Monday’s boycotts (at least, I hope there are boycotts). Go shopping! The streets will have less traffic because the illegals won’t be out. It will be safer because the illegal alien drug [...]
Bush, senators agree on alien citizenship, shut out critics – Nation/Politics – The Washington Times, America’s Newspaper Arrggh. Bush is really upsetting me these days, on a number of issues. Here, as this article reports, Bush snubs Sens. Cornyn and Kyle from the “closed-door” meeting that he had with other senators regarding the immigration issue. [...]
I’m sure I’ve blogged about this before. I just don’t know where. It drives me nuts. In what other languages, other than C and C++, is it acceptable to totally ignore the style that the standard uses? In Java, the “standard” is the Java API written by Sun. Everyone, and I mean everyone who writes [...]
Or the reciprocal thereof, rather. Anyway, have a gander:
Fill Up » Cliff Dugosh: A call to action This is important. Cliff was singled out for his Christianity. He has been, for over a decade, a phenomenal advisor to students. Every time I went to his office, he had time for me, and he always had students entering, in, or leaving his office. He [...]
I’d participate in a rally to support H.R. 4437 if someone would organize it. Gladly. I’d even take a day off from work to do it.
Define multiple symbolic constants that replace integer literals. If you have a bunch of functions that return 0 for success and -1 for error, then don’t do this: #define ERROR -1 #define OK 0 #define ADD_ERR -1 #define ADD_OK 0 #define SEND_OK 0 #define SEND_ERR -1 #define RECV_ERR -1 #define RECV_OK 0 int func() { [...]
I have scoured the net for FLTK 2.0.x binaries, and there aren’t any. Until now. I have compiled the static libraries for FLTK and have created a Windows installer (it will get listed in the “add/remove software” dialog). Come and get it: FltkSetup.msi.