ESR - Curse Of The Gifted
A friend of mine calls it "the curse of the gifted" -- a tendency to lean on your native ability too much, because you've always been rewarded for doing that and self-discipline would take actual work.
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Why UML Fails to Add Value to the Design and Development Process « Learning Lisp
UML is applying an abstraction at the wrong end of the problem. It is primarily used to sketch object models for inferior languages.
Duels of the Planeswalkers: The Magic Engine : Daily MTG : Magic: The Gathering
For instance, the UI finds that a certain card is in the graveyard. It is essential that the UI sub-system does not care why the card is there, or how it got there. It is entirely a dumb client.
The Origins of Scala
When Java first shipped, Bill Joy and James Gosling and the other members of the Java team thought that Java should have generics, only they didn't have the time to do a good job designing it in. So because there would be no generics in Java, at l...
Agile Ajax » ActionMailer Callbacks: In the Spirit of ActionController Filters » Pathfinder Development
A while back, I had a requirement to persist a record of which email addresses were sent an email through the system. I expected to find callback support for ActionMailer, but was surprised to find that it didn't exist.
Daring Fireball: New iPhone Developer Agreement Bans the Use of Adobe's Flash-to-iPhone Compiler
Applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++, or JavaScript as executed by the iPhone OS WebKit engine, and only code written in C, C++, and Objective-C may compile and directly link against the Documented APIs (e.g., Application...
Knowing .NET » Blog Archive » The Absurdity of Apple’s New iPhone Restrictions
You know how you tell when an app for the iPhone was written in MonoTouch? It doesn’t leak memory.
The Goals of Scala's Design
Martin Odersky talks with Frank Sommers and Bill Venners about the compromises and most important goals in Scala's design, its object-oriented innovations, and what's in it for you.
cortesi - The impact of language choice on github projects
Are there major differences between projects in different languages? Is it possible to quantify these differences? I decided to try to gather some hard numbers.