Does Visual Studio Rot the Mind?
“Ruminations on the Psychology and Aesthetics of Coding By Charles Petzold
A Talk Delivered at the NYC .NET Developer’s Group, October 20, 2005″
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Manipulexity and Whipituptitude
As Adam Turoff explained once, Perl has two subtle advantages: manipulexity and whipituptitude. It’s very important to be able to solve the problem at hand simply and easily without languages and tools and syntax getting in your way. That’s whipituptitude. Manipulexity is the ability to use simple tools and build a sufficiently complex solution to a complex problem.
Bricklayer Is a Perl Application Framework
Bricklayer is a little bit like .net, java with netbeans, and all the other technologies that allows for strict seperation of presentation, business, and application logic. Bricklayer is built with PERL, and in some ways approximates the API we all know so well in MovableType. If you’re a developer who likes perl, give it a look.
Javascript Bible Reference Parsing Object: Update
I updated the regex expressions for Javascript Bible Reference Parsing Object to reflect some of the common abbreviations. Thanks to the Folks at the GNPCB.org for posting common book queries. Thanks also to Jeremy for helping me simplify my regex expressions.
JSON is not about me, honest!
JSON is a lightweight data-interchange format. Apparently its a language independant way of notating objects using C like syntax. Interesting…