Monday, December 1st, 2008
During the weekend, I tried out NetBeans 6.5 and its new PHP related functionality. I had earlier seen some quick shots of how the support was, and it seemed like a good contender for big names like Zend Studio.
What features does NetBeans 6.5 have for PHP developers? How does it ...
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Monday, November 24th, 2008
Daniel Brown at Endlessly Curious wrote an interesting post on the current state of teaching programming.
He raises points such as the new generation of programmers getting taught mostly high-level languages such as C# and Java, and that they should be taught more assembly or C instead.
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Monday, November 10th, 2008
I often have problems finding blogs that post content that interests me. It could be that I'm really picky, or it's just really difficult to find quality programming blogs.
So, today I'll introduce you to some of the blogs I read. Perhaps you'll find a new blog to read as well?
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Friday, November 7th, 2008
I recently got into the beta of BumpTop - You may have heard about it: it's a replacement for your Windows desktop.
BumpTop lets you use "real" actions such as tossing items around the desk, creating piles of items and such. Their site claims that BumpTop is "a fresh and engaging ...
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Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
I got a chance to play with Windows 7 earlier this week. In case you haven't heard, Windows 7 is the next OS from Microsoft, following in Vista's footsteps quite literally - it's based on Vista, and it looks almost exactly like it.
I've skipped Vista myself. I've heard so many ...
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Wednesday, October 8th, 2008
Commenter TurboC linked an interesting talk about the future of programming languages. This got me thinking about something I had thought about before:
It seems that PHP has moved a bit towards static typing, and languages like C# seem to be implementing some dynamic features. Are we going towards a "mixed" ...
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Monday, September 29th, 2008
I'm a frequent user of Windows' remote desktop feature. It's a stellar remote control solution: It's incredibly fast, almost like sitting on the remote PC, and has features like bringing over the clipboard and even sounds from the controlled computer.
Much better than VNC, really. VNC is painfully slow compared to ...
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Friday, August 15th, 2008
While browsing around some old files on my computer, I came across some old files from 1998 (I think): An old text-game by some of my elementary school friends.
It reminded me of how I got started in programming. It was probably when I was 11 or 12 years old, when ...
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
This one has been hanging on my drafts list for a while. Kind of lost track of thought during writing this and I never got around to writing about all the points I intended to... but there's still some interesting thoughts here so I decided to post it anyway :)
While ...
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Saturday, January 26th, 2008
So I've been using WordPress as my blogging platform for a while now. As a matter of fact, this is my 48th post with WP.
I had only heard good things about WordPress before installing it, but how has it worked out?
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