February 2004 Archives
...hab ich jetzt Hohlkehl- (hey, das hat was mit Schreinern zu tun) und Verblendkronen zu einem Eigenanteil von 650,19 Euro.
Für die Chemiker unter uns hier die chemischen Zusammensetzung:
Au 73,4 - Pt 1,4 - Pd 5,5 - Ir 0,1 - Ag 16,0 - Zn 3,0 - Sn 0,5 - Nb 0,1
Der geläuterte Patient hat natürlich für September gleich einen Kontrolltermin ausgemacht.
Great list of Tools for Registry and File Monitoring by Bret Pettichord.
The older, the younger, Windows XP and DOS 3.3.
Elegance and Other Design Ideals - A Conversation with Bjarne Stroustrup, Part IV. Although talking about "Elegance" with the designer of C++ seems somewhat an oxymoron, Stroustrup always offers some great insights. Here's one of them:
A library has to evolve. The best libraries are by people who are also users of the libraries.
Here's a post on artima.com dealing with multiple asserts in a test vs. one assert per test.
What's interesting is that the authors codes up a few functions both in Smalltalk and Java at the same time, which makes up for a nice (albeit by no means exhaustive) intro to Smalltalk for Java developers
...by Sriram Krishnan.
Right on, brother.
Uhm, what's cool about blogs is that you can sit tight and bet on somebody else to just write what you are too lazy to write.
One day, the novice came to the master and asked, “Master, how can I write perfect code?” to which the master replied:
“To write perfect code, you must not code.”
The novice looked at the master and begged him to explain further, but the Master was silent...via [The Fishbowl]
Dominic Giampaolo's book, "Practical File System Design with the Be File System", is available for free download in PDF format via [rentzsch.com: Tales from the Red Shed]
Although BeOS is kind of, uhm, well, no longer relevant, it's a great read on the fundamentals of a file system.
In-depth article on Floating-Point Optimization in Microsoft Visual C++ (Whidbey).
Promises to be an interesting read over the next couple of days.
Here's a post at Old New Thing:
There are two functions that let you convert dialog units (DLUs)
to pixels. One is
GetDialogBaseUnits,
which returns the base
units directly (leaving you to do the math), and another is
MapDialogRect,
which takes a rectangle in DLUs and returns a rectangle in pixels.
...
Ned Batchelder on Destructors instead of Catches in C++. One of my favorite techniques. A must-read.
If you're putting demo software out on the intarweb and you want people to download it, then do not, and I'm serious here, do not ask for every single detail about the person's life before you let them download the trial version of your application....
Hmm. At least I'm brave enough to link to this substantial rambling about gathering customer data via a company's website. Of course, we ask customers downloading our demo version for personal information, too. But I understand Rory's point. Let me think about it for a while.
Bjarne Stroustrup on Abstraction and Efficiency via. [Artima.com Articles]
In this game you have to hit the penguin out of the air with a snowball onto a target. A little tricky but additive. [Bob Congdon]
Martin Fowler on Domain Specific Languages.
Martin's always an inspiring read.
">Janne says: [Using a Mac] is about the aesthetic experience of completeness and satisfaction. Of course, he's dead on.... via [chaotic intransient prose bursts]
A wonderful article with some wise and amusing observations about mice and software methodologies. via [Andy Pols' Blog]
Extreme Mice. I like that one.
Here's a quote from Robert Scoble worth pondering for a while:
One problem with the software industry right now is we're all stuck in a rut. We all assume that software has to be forms. Text. Keyboard driven. And that it has to look like Windows XP or Office. Can't we break out of that rut?
Hilarious:
In case you were wondering why the rover failed...
via Markoff [Joi Ito's Web]
Nice website to create a map of countries visited. Here's mine:
Here's a pretty comprehensive list of useful MacOS X add-ons/utilities by Ted Leung.
...waren die zwei-ein-halb Stunden beim Zahnarzt von Erfolg gekrönt. Schaun mer mal, ob der anhält.
Anders Hejlsberg, the lead C# architect, talks with Bruce Eckel and Bill Venners about IL instructions, non-virtual methods, unsafe code, value types, and immutables [via Artima.com Articles]
Here's a CVS contextual menu plugin for MacOS X.
