Let’s just hope there’s no SCO around to ruin it for everybody.
Archive of posts filed under the programming category.
Present meets the past
By Ed Fries, former Microsoft executive. Proving that a hacker is a hacker no matter how hard and far he falls.
Instructed Inform 7 from Saturday onwards
Aaron A. Reed is just about to publish the first book on game development with Inform 7.
According to Amazon, the book is available on Saturday.
Application economy now and then
Application development economics, just the thing for the fragmented era.
Useful programming links
- Flash is not a right, but it’s not wrong either.
- What every developer should know about URLs.
- What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic, the original.
- floating-point-gui.de, brilliantly named update, and easier to understand.
- The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!), which I have started before but given up halfway through.
- How the python interpreter sees programs.
Zero install programmable eye candy
sketch.processing.org – the Processing language available through Bespin.
Akihabara
Akihabara is a seemingly very powerful javascript toolkit that allows creation of fluid arcade games playable in the browser without flash.
Reinvigoration through projects
Reinvigorated programmer keeps on prodding me to grab the keyboard and start coding. Something. Anything.
New programming language concepts, part n
Sikuli is not in the class of elaborate and out-of-hand injokes like befunge. Even though the concept of a screenshot-based language does sound like a hoax, its MIT-heritage recommends taking a closer look.
One more platform
Kindle opens up.
Underhanded C
The contest to celebrate surreptiously misbehaving programs is upon us once again.
Word of the week: privacy theatre
Privacy theater, security theater‘s second cousin.
EDIT 29.12.2009: Yeah, miswrote the title, fixed now.
Back to roots
Dan Bricklin, inventor of the spreadsheet program, takes on programming the iphone (and emerges with a reasonable app).
A /. triplet
Interesting pieces of news via slashdot.org:
- Printers cost less than replacement ink.
- Bad Code Offsets (to stave off guilt, like carbon offsets).
- A Taiwanese man has received all achievements in World of Warcraft.
Famous for fifteen nanoseconds
Finally remembered to upload my Maemo Summit presentation to slideshare.net.
And they're off
The annual interactive fiction competition has started.
The number of entries is lower than in years, and the lack of any TADS games is worrisome as well.
Simple amusements
As far as simplistic digital toys are considered, this circle-dividing flash app takes the top billing of the week.
Jamie Zawinski takes on Palm’s odd application store developer rules.
What just happened?
Reversible debugging, possibly the coolest feature in version 7 of gdb, enables running programs backwards.
Apparently no chronological anomalies can be accidentally introduced while debugging recursive algorithms.
Snakes on the web, an insightful analysis of the state of web development.
Yet another interactive fiction authorship tool
Curveship is slated for release in the fall.
Torkingtonian awesomeness
I’ve been a fan of Nathan Torkington’s daily 4 in O’Reilly Radar.
The crop of this week includes highlights such as:
- App Inventor for Android, lowering the barrier of entry for programmers.
- How does iphone’s sudokugrab work? A lengthy explanation of a complex task.
- BBC opens up their natural history archive, decades of awesomeness (and probably scores of lions pouncing on zebras).
- Manuscripts of Edsger W. Dijkstra, over a thousand pieces.
