programming

I was actually hacking on a (failed) fork of Processing called OhProcessing. The point was to cleanup the code base which is horrendous. Processing is awesome, but the command-line options were unfinished and there's quite a bit of duplication in the source... - Rudolf Olah

Simple Example: You must validate the contents of a list of Widgets. The most complex case involves 3 seperate lookups from other lists, each lookup depending on the other. The least complex is a simple lookup in another list. I'd generally tackle this from the most complex case as it starts me with the most generic solution that can get scaled back in each similar, but less complicated (and separate), implementation. It may vary by the situation specifics, but I generally go after the most complicated so that I have no surprises on the less complicated one. If the most complicated one seems too complicated then I will try for something in the middle if it exists. - xero

I usually go for the simple one first while also thinking about how to generalize it or where I may have to make changes. - Rudolf Olah

"What is NoSQL (technically speaking)? The names of these projects are as diverse as they are whimsical: Hadoop, Voldemort, Dynomite, and others. But they are generally unified by a few things, including: Don't call them databases. Amazon.com's CTO, Werner Vogels, refers to the company's influential Dynamo system as a "highly available key-value store." Google calls its BigTable, the other role model for many NoSQL adherents, a "distributed storage system for managing structured data." They can blow through enormous amounts of data." - xero

"If you find yourself maintaining this horribly designed, hacked together legacy code from the early days of a company be thankful and bask in its glory. Without that spaghetti nightmare you wouldn’t have that job. It was that short sighted thinking that was able to get something done and create a profitable product/company." - xero from Bookmarklet

I think you have to find the balancing point, but I think it leans toward productivity instead of elegance. But, the more you forgo good organization and design, the more important automatic tests are going to be. You have to keep maintenance in mind, but you generally let getting the job done quickly win at first. Version 3 or 4 of your product is almost always a complete rewrite... more... - xero

"At present Gallio can run tests from MbUnit versions 2 and 3, MSTest, NBehave, NUnit, xUnit.Net, and csUnit. Gallio provides tool support and integration with CCNet, MSBuild, NAnt, NCover, Pex, Powershell, Resharper, TestDriven.Net, TypeMock, and Visual Studio Team System. Gallio also includes its own command-line runner, Echo, and a Windows GUI, Icarus. Additional runners are planned or under development. Third parties are also encouraged to leverage the Gallio platform as part of their own applications." - xero from Bookmarklet

"The Burst Engine is an OpenSource vector animation engine for the HTML5 Canvas Element. Burst provides similar web functionality to Flash and contains a layer based animation system like After Effects. Burst uses a very light-weight JavaScript frame, meaning your animations will download un-noticeably quick and can be controlled using very simple JavaScript methods. For example: the [-] logo above is a Burst animation attached to a mouseOver event using the following code... Burst.start("expand");" - xero from Bookmarklet

There are several in the comments as well. Favorites: Chuck Norris doesn’t have disk latency because the hard drive knows to hurry the hell up / When Chuck Norris throws exceptions, it’s across the room. / Chuck Norris can write infinite recursion functions…and have them return. / Chuck Norris doesn’t use web standards as the web will conform to him. / Chuck Norris can overflow your stack just by looking at it. / Chuck Norris knows the last digit of PI. / Chuck Norris doesn’t get compiler errors, the language changes itself to accommodate him. / Steve Jobs medical condition is Chuck Norris. / Chuck Norris solved the Travelling Salesman problem in O(1) time. Here’s the pseudo-code: Break salesman into N pieces. Kick each piece to a different city. - xero from Bookmarklet

Shhhhhh. Maybe we'll get away with something... I don't think he's seen it yet. *tiptoes* - Jason Huebel

"The IIS Search Engine Optimization Toolkit makes it easy to analyze and assess how search engine friendly your web-site is. It pinpoints SEO violations, and provides instructions on how to fix them. The IIS Search Engine Optimization Toolkit is free, takes less than a minute to install, and can be run against any existing web-server or web-site. There is no need to install anything on a remote server to use it – just type in the URL of the site and you’ll get a report back a site analysis report with actionable items that that you can use immediately to improve it." - xero from Bookmarklet

"This week we released the Windows 7 RC Training Kit for Developers as part of our ongoing effort to give you, all the Windows developers out there, and valuable content to work with while making your application shine on Windows 7. This version of the training kit includes 10 presentations and 8 Hands-On-Labs (HOL), covering most of the Windows 7 light-up features as well as application compatibility topics. Note that the HOL gives you the opportunity to get firsthand experience in programming key Windows 7 Light-Up features, such as the Taskbar, Libraries, Multi-Touch, Sensors and Location, Graphics, Ribbon, Trigger Start Services, Instrumentation and Event Tracing for Windows (ETW). We also provide a brief Application Compatibility overview." - xero from Bookmarklet

hm... nobody knows? :( - green-creeper

thnx. i think if i need such feature, it could be usefull for others... - green-creeper

Free tool for designing, testing, and analyzing existing Regular Expressions. Supposed to be great for reverse engineering that nightmare RegEx *someone* left in your legacy code. - xero from Bookmarklet

Nice one, xero. Here's a decent online regex tool: http://friendfeed.com/welovea... - Micah Wittman

var results = jLinq.from(data.users) .startsWith("first", "a") .orEndsWith("y") .orderBy("admin","age") .select(); - xero from Bookmarklet

This _is_ interesting. - Micah Wittman

A wrapup up of the late debate between Joel Spolsky, Bob Martin and Kent Beck on agility - Dag Blakstad from Bookmarklet

A good collections of python tutorials with scientific programming as the focus. - Krishnan Subramanian from Bookmarklet

I have participated in this every year since it began and it's a lot of fun. If you want to understand why, read my article from last year about it: http://cranialsoup.blogspot.com/2007... - April Russo

"But as I said, the company is really, really good. If I were younger I'd probably go to Silicon Valley. You should probably do the same. You want to work with people who have passion, talent and who teach." - Andrew Badera from Bookmarklet

Coverity Thread Analyzer for Java is the first dynamic analysis solution for multi-threaded Java applications that automatically and predictably detects existing and potential race conditions and deadlocks that can cause deadly application behavior. - Michael_techie

"Behaviour Driven Development(BDD) using JBehave 2." - Tabrez Iqbal from Bookmarklet