I got about half way through this article before I realised I’m really not interested in it. If I was coding a demo or something that was performance critical then I’d use C/C++ possibly with a dash of ASM but otherwise, give me the garbage collecting, lots of data types, memory checking, higher level languages any day. 🙂
Chicago Air And Sea Show, 2003
Photos from the Chicago Air And Sea Show last August. It was an absolutely beautiful day but there was a lot of haze in the air making capturing clear images very difficult! I’ll add futher comments later but I’m tired and need to get to bed now!
Development stuff
Introduction to the Firebird Database – A brief introduction, but good reading if you haven’t used it (like me!)
Custom Underlines – oh cute! CSS underlining of links using graphics!
Mozilla Firefox – The Browser, Reloaded
1200 houses burn in South Africa
Just heard a spokesman for the Nial Mellon Township Challenge speak on the radio. Some 1200 of the buildins in a township burnt down at the weekend, 5000 people are now homeless.Some of these buildings were constructed by Irish builders who volunteered their efforts last December for free! It’s a shame to see this happen but hopefully they can get this up and running again.
*smile*
Gulp! This photo isn’t quite the smile you’d expect!
A warning about PayPal
This story is frightening if you use PayPal. There’s a long thread to go with the story so some useful information may come up. (I’m on dial-up, can’t afford to read through the whole lot!)
Linux 2.6 again!
Yay! I’m in Linux 2.6 land again. I couldn’t use it on my last PC as it would freeze for some reason (the machine wouldn’t shut down properly either when using 2.4 so blame the h/w somewhere!) Anyway, this article apparently is all about how fast 2.6 is, I haven’t read it, but it’s an excuse to post this!
NZ – the source of your news?
It seems that when Americans want breaking news coverage they go east, all the way to New Zealand. (Of course it could be west as well, but run with it and humour me!)
When Janet Jackson revealed (almost) all, Internet traffic to some of New Zealand’s online newspapers increased rapidly, the majority of it coming from the USA!
Don’t suppose those newspapers would report on “I’m a celebrity..” or other UK/Irish goings on?
Computer Science, what is it?
A long thread on Computer Science was started by Niall O Broin earlier today. It went through the usual arguments about what constituted CS and what was important. Some argued that low lever languages were a waste of time as most developers won’t ever touch that aspect of programming, but I tend to agree with Kenn Humborg and say that ASM is important, and anyway, it’s fun and logical and more interesting in many ways than high level coding!