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Re: Do I Need To Learn Microsoft Technologies

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away (Stackoverflow.com, November 2008), a university junior posted this question: Most jobs speak of C#, Visual C++, .NET, Java, etc etc Where as I am mainly using Java, C++, Perl, Python … Continue reading

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Sololance

I’ve got a full-time job with benefits, and it’s a blessing to me and my family because it allows me to provide for them in full. We want for nothing, really. However, I do someday want to start my own … Continue reading

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Client Perspectives

I’ve been trying to write a web application in my free time. It’s been going on at varying degrees of intensity for months now, and I’ve got virtually nothing to show for it. Part of that is due to a … Continue reading

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Continuations

By training and experience, I’m largely an object-oriented programmer. I was a freshman comp. sci. student when the Java wave hit my university, so that’s what I was fed. I didn’t learn anything else but Java until the summer after … Continue reading

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Visual Studio is a Pretender!

Can I just rant at you for a minute, gentle reader? The editor in Visual Studio is from the stone ages. Really – it’s retarded (I don’t mean that in a derogatory sense – it really is retarded). Sure, it … Continue reading

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Dedicated window-buffer mapping with Emacs

I use CScope to navigate source code from within Emacs. It’s very, very useful and integrates will into Emacs. However, I’ve been wanting a way to control how cscope updates the buffer/window mappings as it locates search results for you. … Continue reading

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Lisp: no easy download

Over at LispCast, eric’s got a new post up called No easy download. In it he talks about the difficulty of being new to Lisp, wanting to learn, and not knowing where to start. He’s right. It’s way too hard … Continue reading

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debugging macro snippet

I wish I could say I came up with the below, and I suppose I did, but I more or less gathered two or three techniques I didn’t come up with into a few lines to code to make a … Continue reading

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More functional support in C++

Sutter just announced that C++0x will have support for lambdas and closures. It looks from the N2550 report that these things are motivated by a desire for some syntactic sugar to make using STL algorithms easier (which is understandable), but … Continue reading

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The Programming and Management Blog » Most Influential Programmers Results

The Programming and Management Blog » Most Influential Programmers Results Nick Halstead recently took a month-long poll over at his blog recently of what people consider the most influential programmers, and below is the result: 1st – Linus Torvalds 2nd … Continue reading

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