Rob Weir has a blog called An Antic Disposition where he discusses The Disharmony of OOXML. The eloquent center piece of his article is a table representing how various applications represent a smiple text string with one word in red, represented here verbatim: Continue reading "How Not To Form a Standard" »
Tuesday, March 25. 2008
How Not To Form a Standard
Who Needs a SafeD Net?
Bartosz Milewski, a member of the 'D' design team, wrote an article about making the programming language D even safer than it purportedly already is. He called that subset: SafeD. In the process of making D and SafeD look good, the failings of C++ were highlighted in comparison. To his credit, the author was able to list a few good features: performance, low-level access, and powerful abstractions (the latter being slighted at the same time for apparently only being useful in operating systems or large systems design). Continue reading "Who Needs a SafeD Net?" »
Programming Chaos on the Wings of a Butterfly
From xkcd, a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.
Open Source Site of the Day -- Processing
This should actually be filed under a few different headings (which is something I'll do once I get the new blog software in place). Those headings being programming, software development, visualization, animation, imaging, interacting, and open source. Continue reading "Open Source Site of the Day -- Processing" »