Designer vs. Programmer: Fight!
I spend a lot of my work days doing both design and programming, which is fine, except that the two disciplines are very different. In fact, they’re downright contradictory at times.
I spend a lot of my work days doing both design and programming, which is fine, except that the two disciplines are very different. In fact, they’re downright contradictory at times.
A sizable amount of my working life has been spent processing large quantities of text: generating it, reformatting it, parsing it, displaying it. Over the years, my approach to this sort of thing has evolved.
The really neat thing about these games (for the coders in the audience) is that the bullet patterns are not predetermined, but are instead generated using an engine that reads an XML document.
Ah, yes. Now I remember why I’m trying to get out of software.
I just wanted to give a shout out and thank you to Leigh for teaching me so much, so painlessly.
There’s nothing more fun than deciphering other people’s code. Especially when their Javadoc is in German. Poorly spelled German.
It’s about time.
In any given programming project, the source code is the only trustworthy document.
The really sweet thing about JFormattedTextField is the way it beats JTextField as a general-purpose text editing component.
In true JBoss fashion, everyone involved seems to have made a concerted effort to talk as much trash as possible during the whole affair.
There are days, like today, when I really wonder.
Yegappan Lakshmanan’s Taglist plugin does pretty much everything I ever dreamed of my own script doing, and does it for every language that Exuberant Ctags supports
In going back to programming in Java, though, I’ve noticed something surprising: I already miss Python.
Right on the heels of my up-close-and-personal encounter with text encodings comes Tim Bray with a painless and lovely introduction to Unicode.
I got to spend some time last night and this morning learning the differences between straight ASCII, ISO-8859-1, UTF-8, and whatever encoding it is that the Mac uses.
Dave Thomas (the Pragmatic Programmer, not the Beloved Burgermeister) has been thinking about the value of a disciplined practice regimen in programming.
Among programmers, your pranks must not only be funny, they must compile and pass all unit tests before being checked in and posted to the production server.