In my never-ending quest to find more Web-based ways to waste my time, I ran across a lovely article titled Rolling with Ruby on Rails. A friend of mine has been trying to get me to look at Ruby for a while now, and this step-by-step introduction to using the Ruby language on the Rails [...]
My copy of K&R is buried in a box somewhere, so I had to go hunting for a basic C language reference. The first thing that popped up on a Google search for “c language reference” was The C Library Reference Guide.
I may just leave K&R buried in that box. This is an excellent reference, [...]
How well can you tell people with poor social skills from people with aggressively violent social tendencies? Try the Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer quiz and find out.
Dan Sugalski has an excellent article that explains what a type is in computer programming. This is the best and most complete explanation I’ve read about types and why they spark so many arguments among programmers.
I need to clear some time in my schedule to read the rest of the series Dan has written; his [...]
Here’s an Advent calendar with some real rewards behind its little cardboard panels. Instead of little chocolate treats, Mark Fowler’s Perl Advent Calendar offers tips and tricks about a different Perl module for each day of Advent, plus an extra module on Christmas day. Definitely worth a look, whether you’re YAPH, both Christian and geeky, [...]
Mobile Wizardry, brainchild of Aaron Ardiri and other Palm OS game developers, has announced the release of SHARK, a multi-platform development kit for handheld devices.
Unlike prior attempts at achieving this goal (J2ME, AppForge, and CASL, among others), there is no bulky runtime to install, and SHARK is designed to play to the strengths of each [...]
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