Månadsarkiv: april 2004

Smalltalk, risk and success stories

Postat den 30 april, 2004 av staffan

In the comments section to an earlier post  Göran Krampe brought up some excellent points, backed by experience, on my remark that more dynamic languages increases risk in projects, especially if all developers in the project are not on the same … Läs mer →

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This is CLEARLY wrong

Postat den 29 april, 2004 av staffan

From punknews.org: Justin Timberlake to play Johnny Rotten: ”Johnny Rotten says he would pick Justin Timberlake to play him in a new film based on his autobiography. Johnny says that when he met Timberlake he agreed to play the former … Läs mer →

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Making music on a computer, from a programmers perspective

Postat den 29 april, 2004 av staffan

I spent most of yesterday’s evening setting up Cubase SE after my harddrive crash. I went through all free CD’s that I got with the issues of swedish computer music magazine Studio and discovered a bunch of interesting virtual effects … Läs mer →

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Quickies of the day

Postat den 29 april, 2004 av staffan

Anil John writes about developing ASP.NET applications that run under Partial Trust. The whole Code Access Security framework in .Net is a complex beast, and I fear that most developers never will learn enough to actually use it properly, leaving … Läs mer →

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This month’s IDG.se column: Giving props to Smalltalk

Postat den 27 april, 2004 av staffan

Alan Kay recently won the Turing award for his work on Smalltalk and subsequent projects. I spent some time with the free smalltalk implementation Squeak this weekend, and was particularly impressed with the very dynamic nature of things — being … Läs mer →

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Quickies of the day

Postat den 27 april, 2004 av staffan

Jiri has an interesting comparison between the state of infrastructure security as opposed to application security. Michael Howard has the slides from what appear to be an excellent presentation about Secure coding issues up (by way of Sergey Simakov The … Läs mer →

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Microsoft PAG on ”Improving Web Application Security”

Postat den 26 april, 2004 av staffan

Anil John points me to the Microsoft Pattern and Practices site. I’ve stumbled over the ”Application blocks” examples that they have up once or twice, but I never went to their front page to see what it’s all about. I … Läs mer →

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Fiddler – a HTTP debug proxy

Postat den 23 april, 2004 av staffan

I saw this on Scott Water’s blog: A HTTP debugging proxy called Fiddler, that sets itself up as a default system proxy and enables you to see every little detail about every request sent and response recieved to your computer, … Läs mer →

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The C# test team counts LOC — in Perl

Postat den 23 april, 2004 av staffan

What does it say about the C# language when a member of it’s test team uses perl to analyze the code in its test suite? Well, maybe it says more about Perl, really. Maybe they should have just installed cygwin or … Läs mer →

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Premature cliches are the root of all evil (and considered harmful)

Postat den 23 april, 2004 av staffan

Did you know that you can use wild cards in Google searches? Searching for ”premature * is the root of all evil” yields a lot of people quoting Knuth in an almost fanboy like fashion (though it seems that Tony … Läs mer →

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