I very much agree. "Design Patterns" and "Refactoring" complement each other very nicely.
I would add the Extreme Programming books to the list, especially "Extreme Programming Explained" (Kent Beck) and "Extreme Programming Installed" (Ron Jeffries, Ann Anderson, Chet Hendrickson).
Also by Martin Fowler, "UML Distilled" is very useful.
These books (as well as "Refactoring") are especially useful for libraries because they're short enough to digest within the typical lending period and will teach you lots without necessarily having to refer back to them all the time. That said, they make great references as well.
Your message seems to imply that Windows 2000 is the next step in the progression of Windows 95/98. It isn't. Windows 2000 is the successor to Windows NT 4. Windows ME is Windows 98's successor. Microsoft hasn't done a great job of making that clear, in fact, initially they were marketing Windows 2000 as bringing the two branches together, but that's the way it is.
In any case, Windows 2000 is excellent as a business operating system, much better than NT 4 (which wasn't friendly enough) and 98 (which wasn't powerful/stable enough). Windows 2000AS does a good job as a business server. It's not as easy as it should be to upgrade a network from NT 4 to 2000, though.
98/ME is still king for gamers, but as more drivers come out supporting the hardware on Windows 2000, games are running better. New games, like Giants, run great on 2000.
I just happen to prefer running a gopher server. I think gopher is superior for my particular purpose, and in fact superior to the web for many things that the web is used for (though not in all ways). It's a good, efficient, easy to use way of providing information.
I think this would be cool too. The interface would take some time to put together, but probably a lot less than it took to do the HTML interface. The presentation of comments could be pretty simple: the thread hierarchy is represented using directories, and each individual comment is a text file (or HTML file, if the comment uses formatting). Replying could be done using Gopher+'s Ask stuff.
However, I think an NNTP interface to/. would be more appropriate.
True. It barfs on HTTP/1.1 requests, though, so recent browsers don't work. Also, links are written as gopher:// URLs, so it's not really usable if your web browser doesn't support the gopher protocol anyway (like Netscape 6).
As my friend and cow-orker Chelsea has kindly pointed out, "dieing" was spelled incorrectly. It should be spelled "dying". I hope. If I got the second spelling wrong she will certainly kill me.
It's the load average, basically the average number of processes that want to use the CPU at any given time. The three numbers are the load average for the past 1, 5, and 15 minutes. 0.5 (the current value) is actually pretty good. Unfortunately Tomcat (Apache's implementation of JSPs and Servlets) is dieing and I'm not sure why.
Yes, I suppose it does:-) However, since there are a lot of people in the world who don't have access to a gopher client (or don't know how to use one), I would still like them to be able to access my gopher info.
I'm more-or-less playing devil's advocate here (I'm no fan of copyright laws or editing the past), but can this really be considered a call for censorship?
Microsoft is claiming that people have posted works copyrighted by them here. I haven't looked at the specific posts, but unless they are small excerpts (which might be fair use), Microsoft is quite within their rights to ask that the offending materials be removed.
If it becomes necessary to edit the archives, perhaps you could only removed copyrighted portion of the posts (replaced with [deleted at Microsoft's request] or something) rather than the entire post.
As for posts that merely link to copyright material... does the DMCA make that illegal??
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I would add the Extreme Programming books to the list, especially "Extreme Programming Explained" (Kent Beck) and "Extreme Programming Installed" (Ron Jeffries, Ann Anderson, Chet Hendrickson).
Also by Martin Fowler, "UML Distilled" is very useful.
These books (as well as "Refactoring") are especially useful for libraries because they're short enough to digest within the typical lending period and will teach you lots without necessarily having to refer back to them all the time. That said, they make great references as well.
Your message seems to imply that Windows 2000 is the next step in the progression of Windows 95/98. It isn't. Windows 2000 is the successor to Windows NT 4. Windows ME is Windows 98's successor. Microsoft hasn't done a great job of making that clear, in fact, initially they were marketing Windows 2000 as bringing the two branches together, but that's the way it is.
In any case, Windows 2000 is excellent as a business operating system, much better than NT 4 (which wasn't friendly enough) and 98 (which wasn't powerful/stable enough). Windows 2000AS does a good job as a business server. It's not as easy as it should be to upgrade a network from NT 4 to 2000, though.
98/ME is still king for gamers, but as more drivers come out supporting the hardware on Windows 2000, games are running better. New games, like Giants, run great on 2000.
I just happen to prefer running a gopher server. I think gopher is superior for my particular purpose, and in fact superior to the web for many things that the web is used for (though not in all ways). It's a good, efficient, easy to use way of providing information.
I think this would be cool too. The interface would take some time to put together, but probably a lot less than it took to do the HTML interface. The presentation of comments could be pretty simple: the thread hierarchy is represented using directories, and each individual comment is a text file (or HTML file, if the comment uses formatting). Replying could be done using Gopher+'s Ask stuff.
/. would be more appropriate.
However, I think an NNTP interface to
True. It barfs on HTTP/1.1 requests, though, so recent browsers don't work. Also, links are written as gopher:// URLs, so it's not really usable if your web browser doesn't support the gopher protocol anyway (like Netscape 6).
It's in CVS at Sourceforge. I'll do an export of the code and put it up...
As my friend and cow-orker Chelsea has kindly pointed out, "dieing" was spelled incorrectly. It should be spelled "dying". I hope. If I got the second spelling wrong she will certainly kill me.
It's the load average, basically the average number of processes that want to use the CPU at any given time. The three numbers are the load average for the past 1, 5, and 15 minutes. 0.5 (the current value) is actually pretty good. Unfortunately Tomcat (Apache's implementation of JSPs and Servlets) is dieing and I'm not sure why.
Yes, I suppose it does :-) However, since there are a lot of people in the world who don't have access to a gopher client (or don't know how to use one), I would still like them to be able to access my gopher info.
I'm more-or-less playing devil's advocate here (I'm no fan of copyright laws or editing the past), but can this really be considered a call for censorship?
Microsoft is claiming that people have posted works copyrighted by them here. I haven't looked at the specific posts, but unless they are small excerpts (which might be fair use), Microsoft is quite within their rights to ask that the offending materials be removed.
If it becomes necessary to edit the archives, perhaps you could only removed copyrighted portion of the posts (replaced with [deleted at Microsoft's request] or something) rather than the entire post.
As for posts that merely link to copyright material... does the DMCA make that illegal??
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