David Heinemeier Hansson of Ruby on Rails, 37 Signals, Basecamp, etc. fame recently commented on the notion that tech writers should do it for the love of tech. His take on the matter is that the conventional wisdom is wrong and that new school publishers like the Pragmatic Programmers, who split proceeds evenly with writers and deliver content to the market much more quickly are the future.
Good luck getting that on TV. Although the US Bill of Rights guarantees free speech, but it does not guarantee that a media corporation must accept advertising which critisizes it or its parent company.
Even if we had a good script, we still only have an ad which was distributable via P2P means, which is to say that we'd be preaching to the converted.
I bought a RocketRaid 100. While I had no problem getting it to work under Windows, I was unable to get it to work under any of a number of flavors of Linux. Of course, my ineptitude at compiling a patched linux kernel may have led to my difficulties.
I wound up using the card as a plain old IDE interface and then build software RAID on the drives connected to it. In retrospect, I should've bought a 3ware card, despite its significantly higher cost because it would've saved me significant time.
Wired ran an article in 2000 about other groups who were using the same method to the same purpose. It's quite a bit longer and more detailed, giving a more complete picture of how it's intended to work.
I learned SQL by fiddling around is Access. It was great for teaching the basics. The problem is that Access doesn't make you learn proper SQL vocabulary and syntax. Therefore Access becomes a crutch and when conversion with coworkers about queries, I have difficulty because I don't know the proper name for a given type of join; rather I just know to right click on the line joining the tables and toggle the join type.
I'll also echo other posters who have said that teaching RDB theory is essential. It's shocking how little most people in the IT industry really understand about how to properly design a database.
Teaching SQL will teach a student skills which are portable. Teaching Access will teach a non-portable skills; they will be like the VB programming trying to use a "real" language.
So why the mention of Bozeman? Are you refering to the Bozeman, MT, USA in which I now sit? (I know no other Bozeman.) It was a balmy -15F (-26C) here this morning.
fiftyfly, why Bozeman?
My home internet connection is with a terrific WISP. I believe they use a 5.2 GHz radio band that is 128-bit encrypted. The service has been reliable; much more so than Southwestern Bell's DSL, but slightly less so than @Home's cable modem. The speed is also good (~85 KB/s) and resonably responsive (~80 ms ping to various points on the net).
So while I can't comment on the 900 MHz band specifically, I can say that a WISP in general can be a good choice.
I added a projects section to my resume after my work experience section in which I list OS projects and various other things I've done in a non-work related fashion.
I recently got hired for a new job. While I was interviewing for the spot, I was asked more than once about more than one of the projects I've done. They seemed genuinely interested in what I'd done.
I think having a projects section as part of your resume is a good idea because it indicates that you take developing your skills outside of work seriously.
Q : When can I purchase a GEN H-4?
A : Good Question!
Sales of PROTOTYPE models are expected to begin summer of 2000. When the GEN H-4 becomes available it will be clearly posted on this web site.
Well, since news of the GEN H-4 becoming available is not clearly posted on the web site and it's a couple year later, this may not be worth passing the credit cards for after all.
I strongly recommend the Williams and Kessler book on pair programming, which talks about this. (Maybe I should review it?)
Please. I, for one, would be quite interested.
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One tremendously useful thing VIM can do that MSVC's editor can't is to use.tags files produced by ctags. Which MSVC has it's own ctags like feature which can be enabled with the "generate browse info" option, this info can not be produced if the code won't completely compile. ctags does not have that limitation, which is a significant advantage when you're trying to navigate through undocumented code that won't compile.
Another wonderfully useful feature of VIM is that you can record useful, exacting macros with VIM, which you certainly can't do with MSVC or, in my relatively limited experiece, any other editor other than emacs. All the power of VIM's normal mode is present in its macro capability.
Another bonus of VIM is that it can simultaneously display many different files split horizontally or vertically. While MSVC will allow you to do this, the title bars and scroll bars in all of those windows eat up so much screen space that it's not worth doing for more than two files.
Also, the syntax highlighting in VIM is better, or at least more configurable. For example, I've been using doxygen lately. I really like the different elements of a doxygen comment to show up in different colors so that I can pick out easily when I've made a stupid mistake. For VIM, I just went to vim.sf.net, found the friendly doxygen.vim syntax highlighting fixeruper that someone had written and I was in business. With MSVC you could probably write some extension to highlight the syntax the way you wanted, but what a pain.
In the end it comes down to using a tool that is designed for the task. VIM was designed for editing code. The MSVC editor employs the same basic editing philosophy as notepad or MS Word, which were certainly never designed for coding. Just a simple example: VIM has a set of commands which work in a line oriented way. Software is written in lines. Honestly, a good deal of what I find myself doing with code is moving a line or a group of lines around.
Before I starting using VIM, I was the most efficient person I knew at editing code in MSVC because I had the keyboard commands down. Now that I use VIM, I really do edit code way faster, especially for any sort of repetitive task.
gnome-db's libgda component "aims to provide a free unified data access architecture" and "is useful for any application that accesses persistent data (not only databases, but data)". I used it when it was in its infancy and it showed a lot of promise but wasn't quite there. At that point, they were working on query translators so that you'd write your SQL query in XML and a translator would spit out the appropriate SQL for your database of choice. I have no idea where that idea went.
It's worth noting that libgda can be used by non-GNOME applications.
It's also worth mentioning that libdga has a C API. I have no idea if someone has written a C++ wrapper for it.
Oh, and finally, I noticed that libgda had a release on July 8, 2002, moving toward a 0.9 beta, so it looks like it's still actively developed.
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David Heinemeier Hansson of Ruby on Rails, 37 Signals, Basecamp, etc. fame recently commented on the notion that tech writers should do it for the love of tech. His take on the matter is that the conventional wisdom is wrong and that new school publishers like the Pragmatic Programmers, who split proceeds evenly with writers and deliver content to the market much more quickly are the future.
Congratulations to the whole team at BSG!
Even if we had a good script, we still only have an ad which was distributable via P2P means, which is to say that we'd be preaching to the converted.
I bought a RocketRaid 100. While I had no problem getting it to work under Windows, I was unable to get it to work under any of a number of flavors of Linux. Of course, my ineptitude at compiling a patched linux kernel may have led to my difficulties.
I wound up using the card as a plain old IDE interface and then build software RAID on the drives connected to it. In retrospect, I should've bought a 3ware card, despite its significantly higher cost because it would've saved me significant time.
I can say that the image around "Amsterdam & Thorpe, 59714" is no older than July 4, 2004 and is probably at least as new as September, 2004.
I couldn't get the link from the article to work. However, I found this link by searching on the site.
Is there any implementation of templates or generics that you would hold up as satifyingly aromatic?
"O(1) scales well..."
No, really?
Note: In Canada you'd pay at least 14% sales tax as well. Sadly some localities in the States are beginning to approach this.
Wired ran an article in 2000 about other groups who were using the same method to the same purpose. It's quite a bit longer and more detailed, giving a more complete picture of how it's intended to work.
I'll also echo other posters who have said that teaching RDB theory is essential. It's shocking how little most people in the IT industry really understand about how to properly design a database.
Teaching SQL will teach a student skills which are portable. Teaching Access will teach a non-portable skills; they will be like the VB programming trying to use a "real" language.
It's terribly hard to when you're shivering...
No it's not. Helena is the capital of MT. :-) See http://www.officialusa.com/stateguides/capitals/
So why the mention of Bozeman? Are you refering to the Bozeman, MT, USA in which I now sit? (I know no other Bozeman.) It was a balmy -15F (-26C) here this morning. fiftyfly, why Bozeman?
Yeah. Jeffrey Dahmer went to heaven.
+1 Funny if I had mod points.
My home internet connection is with a terrific WISP. I believe they use a 5.2 GHz radio band that is 128-bit encrypted. The service has been reliable; much more so than Southwestern Bell's DSL, but slightly less so than @Home's cable modem. The speed is also good (~85 KB/s) and resonably responsive (~80 ms ping to various points on the net).
So while I can't comment on the 900 MHz band specifically, I can say that a WISP in general can be a good choice.
I recently got hired for a new job. While I was interviewing for the spot, I was asked more than once about more than one of the projects I've done. They seemed genuinely interested in what I'd done.
I think having a projects section as part of your resume is a good idea because it indicates that you take developing your skills outside of work seriously.
If I remember correctly, the list of state which do not have sales tax are Montana, Oregon, Alaska, and Delaware. Here's a that spells it out.
Q : When can I purchase a GEN H-4?
A : Good Question!
Sales of PROTOTYPE models are expected to begin summer of 2000. When the GEN H-4 becomes available it will be clearly posted on this web site.
Well, since news of the GEN H-4 becoming available is not clearly posted on the web site and it's a couple year later, this may not be worth passing the credit cards for after all.
Speaking of NTU, does anyone have opinions about it? I'd be curious as to others' experience with NTU.
I strongly recommend the Williams and Kessler book on pair programming, which talks about this. (Maybe I should review it?)
Please. I, for one, would be quite interested.
Another wonderfully useful feature of VIM is that you can record useful, exacting macros with VIM, which you certainly can't do with MSVC or, in my relatively limited experiece, any other editor other than emacs. All the power of VIM's normal mode is present in its macro capability.
Another bonus of VIM is that it can simultaneously display many different files split horizontally or vertically. While MSVC will allow you to do this, the title bars and scroll bars in all of those windows eat up so much screen space that it's not worth doing for more than two files.
Also, the syntax highlighting in VIM is better, or at least more configurable. For example, I've been using doxygen lately. I really like the different elements of a doxygen comment to show up in different colors so that I can pick out easily when I've made a stupid mistake. For VIM, I just went to vim.sf.net, found the friendly doxygen.vim syntax highlighting fixeruper that someone had written and I was in business. With MSVC you could probably write some extension to highlight the syntax the way you wanted, but what a pain.
In the end it comes down to using a tool that is designed for the task. VIM was designed for editing code. The MSVC editor employs the same basic editing philosophy as notepad or MS Word, which were certainly never designed for coding. Just a simple example: VIM has a set of commands which work in a line oriented way. Software is written in lines. Honestly, a good deal of what I find myself doing with code is moving a line or a group of lines around.
Before I starting using VIM, I was the most efficient person I knew at editing code in MSVC because I had the keyboard commands down. Now that I use VIM, I really do edit code way faster, especially for any sort of repetitive task.
It's worth noting that libgda can be used by non-GNOME applications.
It's also worth mentioning that libdga has a C API. I have no idea if someone has written a C++ wrapper for it.
Oh, and finally, I noticed that libgda had a release on July 8, 2002, moving toward a 0.9 beta, so it looks like it's still actively developed.