"Client is a small advertising agency in Manhattan.
"Job consists of production work on heavily dHTML website. In order to
minimize production pain, html pages are generated using Ruby (a
wonderful language)."
I write layered code. The domain objects know nothing about the GUI. The problem is, when something goes wrong deep in the bowels of the code, how do I get the error to the user?
Throwing and catching exceptions doesn't seem like the right way, but that's often what I end up doing.
If MS aren't going to allow it through their tools, it just means companies like mine will have to migrate to non-MS solutions for even the Windows machines.
Unfortunately, that is not what will happen. The business weenies will cry, "We need Outlook. We need Crystal Reports. We need Solitaire." The suits think they need Microsoft software. They will force the techies to migrate to Windows.
My first thought was, "Wait a minute: the piezos generate electricity when they are being squished by your feet. Cars ride along horizontally." Then I realized that cars bounce up and down all the time. What about attaching piezos to the shock absorbers?
Use markup only if it's necessary for semantic meaning (this is a chapter, this is a paragraph). In that case, I recommend DocBook. Otherwise, plain old ASCII will do the trick just fine. Many people think that bold, italics, and bullets are necessary when writing anything, even a simple email. Use words to make a point, not bullets.
Smalltalk was designed partially with kids in mind. The syntax is extremely simple. No worrying about data types. The environment is flexible. No compiler or linker to use. Type into a Workspace window and select "do it".
For a free, full Smalltalk version, there is none better than Squeak.
I won't read papers for two reasons. First, they are not searchable. (I sometimes get annoyed at books for the same reason.) Second, they are messy; I hate getting cheap ink all over my hands.
Wired claims in Routers Blamed for Yahoo Outage that it was not a DoS attack; rather, it was a misconfigured router at their ISP. Anonymous source 'n everything.
"Whoever organized the protests understands modern journalism well. The protests were widely covered in newspapers and on TV."
They don't necessarily understand journalism (the media); the media is coming to understand them. Some media writers visit slashdot and other Linux- and OSS-related sites.
Slashdot Mirror
Whatever you have to say about AOL, it is easy to use for millions of people that can't spell Linux.
If AOL took Red Hat and ran with it, this community might end up with the source to the most easily installed OS in history.
To bad about all the pop-up ads you will see while booting.
"Client is a small advertising agency in Manhattan.
"Job consists of production work on heavily dHTML website. In order to minimize production pain, html pages are generated using Ruby (a wonderful language)."
Yay, Ruby!
I write layered code. The domain objects know nothing about the GUI. The problem is, when something goes wrong deep in the bowels of the code, how do I get the error to the user?
Throwing and catching exceptions doesn't seem like the right way, but that's often what I end up doing.
What do you do?
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See? Three little dots, or a face?.
If MS aren't going to allow it through their tools, it just means companies like mine will have to migrate to non-MS solutions for even the Windows machines.
Unfortunately, that is not what will happen. The business weenies will cry, "We need Outlook. We need Crystal Reports. We need Solitaire." The suits think they need Microsoft software. They will force the techies to migrate to Windows.
Perhaps this is really a marketing ploy. When Passport becomes available to end users, M$ can say "10,000 people already use Passport!"
My first thought was, "Wait a minute: the piezos generate electricity when they are being squished by your feet. Cars ride along horizontally." Then I realized that cars bounce up and down all the time. What about attaching piezos to the shock absorbers?
Use markup only if it's necessary for semantic meaning (this is a chapter, this is a paragraph). In that case, I recommend DocBook. Otherwise, plain old ASCII will do the trick just fine. Many people think that bold, italics, and bullets are necessary when writing anything, even a simple email. Use words to make a point, not bullets.
Make sure you're wearing a vacuum suit when pressing the space bar, eh?
This also reminds me of a game called Space Bar, an Infocom-like graphical adventure game. Fun.
The trick, of course, would be to use less energy running the 'sphere than you would gain through mechanical energy.
Now I've got this mental image of a giant Sipping Bird on the Moon. Thanks a lot.
Can Gnutella be reengineered to handle versioning more intelligently? Perhaps requests can be versioned.
If we catch this soon enough, a (relatively) small population of Gnutella users may all be willing to upgrade.
I saw it at $10,000,000.
Wait a minute! The spec doc is an .exe file. I'm not opening any @^#%$ Microsoft .exe file.
Besides, I don't run Windows.
For a free, full Smalltalk version, there is none better than Squeak.
I won't read papers for two reasons. First, they are not searchable. (I sometimes get annoyed at books for the same reason.) Second, they are messy; I hate getting cheap ink all over my hands.
Wired claims in Routers Blamed for Yahoo Outage that it was not a DoS attack; rather, it was a misconfigured router at their ISP. Anonymous source 'n everything.
"Whoever organized the protests understands modern journalism well. The protests were widely covered in newspapers and on TV."
They don't necessarily understand journalism (the media); the media is coming to understand them. Some media writers visit slashdot and other Linux- and OSS-related sites.