New Marc Andreessen Interview on Charlie Rose
I just watched a very interesting interview of Marc Andreessen on Charlie Rose. Marc Andreeson is one of my favorite technology people. I was lucky to meet him and have a short conversation with him...
View ArticleFunctional Programming Coming to PHP
Andrew Gwozdziewycz wrote a post about PHP 5.3's new feature that allows closures in PHP for the first time and goes on to explain it and how to use it. I think this is really exciting for PHP...
View ArticleCharles Petzold on Visual Studio
Charles Petzold wrote the book CODE The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software which I read and think is very informative. I find his post about Visual Studio interesting: Does Visual...
View ArticleNew Cell Phone, New Car, New Job
Last week was my last week working at Minnick Web Services, working on and building websites for magazine publishers (and working on eBook registration systems). It was great. I worked there for close...
View ArticleFirst Bay Area Haskell Meeting
Last week Marshall Beddoe organized the first Bay Area Haskell meeting in San Francisco. It was great. I think there were about 20 people there. There's now some talk on the Bay Area Haskell Users...
View ArticleGreat Programmer Friends
From Daniel Tenner's post How to recognise a good programmer: Positive indicators: Passionate about technology Programs as a hobby Will talk your ear off on a technical subject if encouraged...
View ArticleMy Ideas Round 1: The Democranet Idea
Every once in awhile I have an interesting idea of some application or software program I'd like to create, but I almost never have the time to immediately do it, and then sometimes later I notice...
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Explaining Newsconomy - Duplicate URLs and Buying Stuff
Newsconomy is a user-submitted news website like reddit.com or Hacker News and a bookmarking website like delicious.com. But it is also different and this post explains how it is different. Newsconomy...
View ArticleAsking the Best Programmers on the Internet
I'm a pretty good news junkie, particularly about programming stuff on the web.1 Every once in awhile I really do come across some great stuff. I came across a great piece of material today. Now...
View Article2009 Rails Conference
I just watched a few of the talks of the very recent Ruby on Rails conference. They are great. I really enjoyed Robert Martin's talk What Killed Smalltalk Could Kill Ruby, Too and David Heinemeier...
View ArticleIs Javascript the New Assembly?
When I first started building websites I learned Javascript and the DOM and that's what I programmed with for client-side browser functionality. When AJAX began to be more broadly known I wrapped my...
View ArticleLaziness Inspires Innovation
I got a personal reality today of why Larry Wall says the first virtue of a great programmer is laziness. A couple days ago I had the task of slightly changing the format of some CSV files by hand so...
View ArticleMultiple Programming Language Implementations - This Annoys Me the Most
I've been reading books on Ruby. I want to know the language really well. I'm that kind of programmer. I love to know the exact details of a language as much as possible. By far the thing I like least...
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Newsconomy Reaches 1000 Items
My bookmarking website, Newsconomy, has recently reached over 1000 links to cool things on the web. Mostly things about programming. I think the top 15 most popular tags give a good reflection of the...
View ArticlePower and Complexity in a Programming Language
I've been reading the new Coders at Work book. It is great. I'm reading it straight through and I'm in the middle of the interview with Joshua Bloch. One really interesting subject that has been...
View ArticleHow to Know if a Programming Candidate is a Good Programmer
It seems like I've read a lot about the question "How do you know if someone is a good programmer or not?" And I've been surprised by the answers. I've read good programmers saying that they can't...
View ArticleAm I Wrong, Is this How Digital Circuitry Actually Works?
I'm currently working on the logic design of the ALU in the book The Elements of Computing Systems. It has occurred to me that in this ALU and in all combinational circuits or chips that all...
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When Someone Says, "Why would you want to do that?"
I love the introduction in the book Assembly Language Step-by-Step: Programming with Linux, entitled "Why Would You Want to Do That?". From the introduction: Note well: When somebody asks you, "Why...
View ArticleLand of Lisp!
"Simple but refined, guaranteed to blow your mind." "Land of Lisp" "Minimal and sleek, but still so clever you'll freak." Land of Lisp the book Land of Lisp the music video
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