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Monthly Archives: June 2007
A Victorian British artilleryman blogs
Gunner William Henry Ranson (born 1843) has started a blog about his life in the ranks of Royal Artillery and as a civilian in Canada right after Confederation: http://whranson.blogspot.com/ Gunner Ranson was my great-great-grandfather. After serving in the Royal Artillery … Continue reading
Coding lessons from university
Dare Obasanjo, smart code guy and occasional punching bag for the anti-Microsoft people, is collecting lists of Three Things I Learned About Software In College. I posted mine in a comment on his blog, but decided to reproduce them here. … Continue reading
Tagged programming, tips
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My biggest problem with Wikipedia
Summary: You can’t partition a web site’s users into discrete groups by language. I don’t worry much about Wikipedia’s objectivity or reliability — no sources (especially not newspapers or Britannica) are objective or reliable, and at least Wikipedia preserves its … Continue reading
Tagged architecture, tips, web
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Maybe the women are right
Summary: Perhaps the women who don’t choose computer programming are making a good choice, especially with the deteriorating working conditions, stagnant or falling salaries, and offshoring. Recently, we’ve had a few postings about women in computing (or the lack thereof) … Continue reading
The lawyers …
Lawyers force companies to write page after page of end-user license agreements (“clause xix: The said user hereby indemnifies ACME Widgets against any harm caused to his/her pregnancy by use of this spreadsheet”) and disclaimers (“ACME Widgets does not intend … Continue reading
Tagged business, rights
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XML 2007 Call for Participation (closes 31 August)
The Call for Participation in XML 2007, the world’s largest and longest-running markup conference, is now open until Friday 31 August: http://2007.xmlconference.org/public/cfp/4 The conference runs from Monday 3 December to Wednesday 5 December 2007, and includes a keynote by Jason … Continue reading
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REST, the Lost Update Problem, and the Sneakernet Test
Dare Obasanjo is giving a bit of pushback on the Atom Publishing Protocol, but the part that caught my attention was the section on the Lost Update Problem. This doesn’t have to do with REST per se as much as … Continue reading
Tagged architecture, tips, web
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