Archive: Coding category
Came across this interesting bit from the Broken Windows Theory post of a Windows product manager (bold has been removed):
Vista is said to have over 50 million lines of code, whereas XP was said to have around 40 million. There are about two thousand software developers in Windows ...
I haven't been in much of a coding mood lately, thus the scarcity of posts. But I think that's changing. Today I made my initial foray into Javascript coding. At work we're porting our genealogy extraction software to the web, so I'm writing some code to manage ...
I stumbled across a Google Jobs page a few minutes ago, intrigued by the 20% time idea. And from there I found An Inside Look at Google, an interesting video about what it's like to work at Google. Dang it, I'd like to work at Google. ...
Finally started doing some Ruby coding today. I'm writing a pedigree parser that takes an XML pedigree and outputs it to HTML, and so the natural first step was to see what Ruby's XML capabilities are. REXML is cool. I've done a fair amount of XML ...
I've switched to TextMate for my work development (which is mostly HTML, CSS, and XSLT at the moment, plus Ruby and Python for Beyond). And I'm liking it. Granted, I haven't read the manual yet and so my fingers are really missing vi keystrokes, but I'm going ...
Ran across an interesting article on Raganwald, Why do we resist the idea that programming is hard? Here's one of the lead-in quotes, by Edsger Dijkstra:
“Don’t blame me for the fact that competent programming, as I view it as an intellectual possibility, will be too difficult for ‘the ...
Today I read about the Levenshtein distance algorithm and decided to code it in Ruby.
In information theory, the Levenshtein distance or edit distance between two strings is given by the minimum number of operations needed to transform one string into the other, where an operation is an insertion, deletion, ...
Here at work we use ASP.NET, doing most of our coding in VB.NET. After a year and half of this, can I just say that I feel like VB.NET is rotting my brain? Sure, it's a real language, but the more I use it the dumber I feel, ...
