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Vim tips

posterous — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 23:19:59 +0000

http://rayninfo.co.uk/vimtips.html

Sprache – Monadic Parser Combinator Library in C#

John — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 06:35:01 +0000

http://code.google.com/p/sprache/

QuickCursor – Use Favorite Text Editor to Type Everything

John — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 04:07:19 +0000

http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/products/quickcursor

Christmas

posterous — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 20:36:09 +0000

Choose your path carefully

John — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:40:29 +0000

Companies don’t necessarily hire a “java programmer” or “ruby programmer”. Really serious companies hire “great developers”, “passionate developers”. If you don’t care about what you do, you will end up in some commodity software factory with little to no incentive to grow up in your career. Real developers are master craftsmen. Enjoy what you do, learn a lot, endlessly, and you should not have any difficulties finding a job

Fabio Akita via Dmitry Belitsky

Making HTML data tables useful with jQuery

posterous — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 03:04:55 +0000

Getting frozen, or fixed, header and footer rows in a table is a
frustrating exercise, especially if you need to support Internet
Explorer 7. In searching for solutions to what you would think would
be a common problem, I discovered two plug-ins for jQuery that ease
the pain of displaying tables with such features:

Flexigrid
Offers a ton of features, but is maintained by a lone developer who
barely has a web presence at all.
DataTables
Lots of configuration options for dynamically loading, searching,
sorting, and even summarizing data; however, it does not offer a
built-in solution for frozen header/footers.

Simpsons minutiae

posterous — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:36:10 +0000

http://bartsblackboard.com/

The dying file

posterous — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 07:46:10 +0000

Michael K. expresses a lot of what I’ve been mulling over for the last few months in the The great demise of the file: I want to manage my own data. I want to preserve it myself. I don’t want to depend on another application and its developers to continue to access the stuff I write and the photos I take. Will their apps be there for me in a year? Five years? Ten? Twenty?

Files – plain, jpeg’s, png’s, mp3’s – they’ll be around, as easy to find and use as they have been for the last twenty-five years.

Untitled

posterous — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:10:43 +0000

Succinctly states what so many veteran programmers working in the
Microsoft world miss:

Java is to JavaScript as ham is to hamster.

Advice concerning advice

posterous — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:32:58 +0000

You shouldn’t always follow good advice, but you should always take it into account. You have other options besides the literal interpretation.

via Giles Bowkett