Benefits of Developing With Microsoft AND Open Source

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The Internet seems to be the latest battleground for the computer age-old struggle between Microsoft and open source solutions. For some reason, many web developers like to engage in holy wars over various web site hosting solutions and development platforms, fiercely defending their beloved vendor’s suite of products. They battle over their particular setup so much they block out any …

Should PC’s be easy to use for everyone?

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Should PC’s be easy to use for everyone, or should you actually need some kind of understanding of how they work? I recently saw an article about a new computer aimed at “computer illiterate” users, the Alex PC. Elsewhere on the ‘net, people were arguing about whether or not trying to make it easy for “non-geeks” to use computers and …

Can you make JavaScript’s String mutable?

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Here’s a question I was pondering a couple of days ago: Can you make JavaScript’s String object mutable, as in modifiable without having to re-assign the string. Why would this be useful? Sometimes you might share a string between objects, and you’d want changing it in one place get reflected in elsewhere. If you had a single string object, which …