Rand looks at NewsFire and is amazed.
That’s right. It is simple. In fact, your first impression is that you could fire up Interface Builder and slap this together in a ten short minutes. You’re really quite wrong. Keep using the product. Add some feeds… read some articles… and you’ll start to appreciate the work that has gone into this application.
Nice Vim article on regex in the editor. Must have a look later!
Great article on searching MySQL using PHP! I didn’t know about RLIKE at all! How’d I miss that? (via The Real Adam)
ah ha! This is handy! How to use CVS without going insane is a list of must-have commands for creating, maintaining and using a CVS repository, or maybe I should use something else?
This essay has been linked to death but I just got around to reading it. Printing it out for consumption later!
Ooh! Cool! Python on the C64! including a screenshot of the interpreter working. Must download and play with this! hehe.
It looks like Python may be making it’s way to a Series 60 mobile phone soon! I may actually learn how to code in Python if this becomes available!
On that note, I may buy a new phone. The keyboard on my 7650 is getting cranky, some keys need to be pressed hard, others print characters twice. I could take the phone apart and clean the keyboard but now the plastic cover on the thumbstick/joystick thingy is coming apart. If I buy another phone, I’d like another Symbian device – Triz really is a great Tetris clone that I’d miss. Now, if I could only get a version of Go! for the phone I’d be happy and content.
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. 🙂
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!
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!