Tim Bray posted a thought provoker in “Type-System Criteria”. Working in Android has caused him to rethink some positions. Go read.
Category Archives: Coding, Software Engineering, Computer Science
Greg Wilson, “This continues to be the biggest headache our students face”
Greg Wilson discusses one of the biggest road blocks to using Python more widely, especially in teaching situations, in “It Just Keeps On Hurting”.
Quotes from the Nato Software Engineering Conference in 1968 – Peter Krantz
Peter Krantz put together some eye-opening, and sad, sad quotes from a software engineering conference held in 1968: “Quotes from the Nato Software Engineering Conference in 1968 – Peter Krantz”.
A retrospective on “No Silver Bullet” in Software Engineering
OOPSLA held an all-star panel (including Dave Thomas and Martin Fowler), earlier this year, on the must-read paper from Fred Brooks (included in the must-read book “Mythical Man-Month”) “No Silver Bullet — Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering”. Read the paper. Then read the panel’s transcript.
WikiWikiWeb: No Silver Bullet
Christian Johansen’s “An introduction to Emacs Lisp”
Christian Johansen, author of Test-Driven Javascript, wrote a great intro to Emacs Lisp: “An introduction to Emacs Lisp”. One of the better one’s I’ve reviewed and it is one for the bookmarks.
A nice guide to using iTerm2, tmux, emacs, irssi on the Mac
Edouard Swiac posts a guide to “Hacking like a hacker on a Mac using iTerm2, tmux, emacs, irssi (and more).”. I’m using Solarized now in Emacs and Terminal and might come back to this to add a few more tweaks to my work environment.
entaroadun/hnpickup – An educational example of a data mining app
entaroadun/hnpickup looks like a nice project to introduce you to some data mining application design patterns to follow any place. It uses Google App Engine and Python.
The Java Ecosystem (for the Sinatra or web.py lover)
Shaneal Manek’s posted a piece on Java that is another one for the bookmarks (and one to experiment with if you aren’t familiar), that introduces some Sinatra or web.py capabilities to the Java crowd: The Modern Java Ecosystem (for the Sinatra or web.py lover).
Here goes his example project on Github.
The Python Ecosystem – An Introduction
mirnazim.org posts a fantastic intro to the ‘Python Ecosystem’ that is worth bookmarking and coming back to: Python Ecosystem – An Introduction. Discussion at Hacker News.
Here is some great Python related news: Adrian Holovaty is getting back involved with Django!.
Be a Jerk: The Worst Business Lesson From the Steve Jobs Biography
Unfortunately too many will take the wrong lessons for their own ends: Be a Jerk: The Worst Business Lesson From the Steve Jobs Biography – Tom McNichol – Business – The Atlantic.
Don’t be an asshole. You’re not Steve Jobs, and even if you were, it doesn’t make it right.