to turn ideas into software, quickly and faithfully
— John Chambers
Great aim!
Author: grant
Stack Overflow: What did USENET get wrong?
Stack Overflow is:
A language-independent collaboratively edited question and answer site for programmers.
— StackOverflow
It is booming. USENET is not.
What did they do right that USENET got wrong?
Why Be Positive?
Q. Why Be Positive?
A. It beats the alternative!
Opera Doesn't Like to Run for Days
Opera is a great web browser. It is designed to facilitate a pleasant web-browsing experience. It doesn’t seem to like to run for days at a time, though.
On OS X, it has to be forcibly quit every few days or so.
Windows XP is Great
Windows XP is simple, reliable, and extensible. It has served many hundreds of thousands well for many, many years. It serves as a vehicle for businesses to prosper, people to have fun, and students (of all ages) to learn.
Windows XP is great.
Bootstrapping a Mathematics Education
Selectively Disabling Tail Recursion
Here is a great article (and piece of code) that addresses one of the few complaints about tail-recursion, the inability to easily collect debugging information. It is just wonderful.
Box2D Lite: A Scheme Physics Engine
(via ikarus)
Box2D is a physics engine written in C++ by Erin Catto:
Box2D Lite is a simplified version that he posted to his blog once upon a time.
I’ve ported Box2D Lite to Ikarus. Here it is running the pyramid demo:
That’s a screenshot of the very first successful run. 🙂
Of course, I’ll be happy to release the code once the performance is cranked a bit.
Ed
Bertrand Meyer's take on Learning How to Program
Here is Bertrand Meyer’s take on learning how to program.
The site includes a rationale for the teacher, and introduction for the students, and recorded lectures among other things.
Having read OOSC2, it will be interesting to see his philosophy on teaching new programmers.
(via Bertrand Meyer)