Etikettarkiv: programmering

Bruce Eckel on Generics and erasure

Postat den 26 september, 2004 av staffan

Bruce Eckel has his third article (earlier articles here and here) on the role of erasure in Java 5.0 Generics. Complicated subject, at least for me who hasn’t developed anything with either .Net or C# generics, but as usual with … Läs mer →

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Quickies of the day

Postat den 22 september, 2004 av staffan

Lately, I’ve only been blogging about what’s going on in my world. Time to go through the last few days of blog postings that I found interesting for one reason or another: pHatidic writes about the fact that Wikipedia does … Läs mer →

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Python is starting to grow on me

Postat den 8 september, 2004 av staffan

Ok, so I’m busily parsing lawtext with EBNF grammars, but the resulting parse tree is somewhat cumbersome to work with. Each node is a 4-tuple, [tagname,startindex,endindex,childnodes], where childnodes is a list of similar 4-tuples: for n in r[3]: print ”%s: … Läs mer →

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Learning python… again

Postat den 21 augusti, 2004 av staffan

An interesting side effect of deciding to quit programming for food is that I’ve started to program for fun again. Since a set of laws is, at it’s core, just a gigantic set of large documents, much interesting stuff can … Läs mer →

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All joy without bit manipulation is false joy

Postat den 7 juni, 2004 av staffan

In another forum, there has been a lot of talk about the book ”Hacker’s Delight”, a book focusing on low-level computer arithmetic and logic. In the sample chapter available online, the author shows a large collection of bit manipulation formulas … Läs mer →

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Some parts of Microsoft still doesn’t get it

Postat den 7 juni, 2004 av staffan

So, I’m setting out to do interesting stuff on the PocketPC/Windows Mobile platform, mostly to do with hardware integration, particularly bluetooth and IrDA communication, so I’m not interested in that sissy Compact Framework stuff that MSDN seems to want to … Läs mer →

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Microsoft and transparency

Postat den 20 maj, 2004 av staffan

Noone in the Microsoft development space can have missed the big change that has taken place within Microsoft during the last year. The company goes further in trying to build ties with the developers, employees are blogging, they are trying … Läs mer →

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Quickies of the day

Postat den 18 maj, 2004 av staffan

I’ve read lots of interesting things the last week, but haven’t sat down to go through my ”Items for Review” folder until now. By the way, that RSSBandit feature rocks! Gunnar Kudrjavets has an interesting discussion about wheter to have … Läs mer →

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Quickies of the day

Postat den 1 maj, 2004 av staffan

Google being irrational in the best of ways: Google expects to bring in $eB ($2,718,281,828) in their IPO. If you ask me, they’re worth at least $πB. There has been a lot of buzz about the newest publication from Microft’s … Läs mer →

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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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