Archive: Outside the Box category
Today I came across Functional Programming for the Rest of Us, via Digg. Great article providing a nice overview of functional programming, including higher order functions, currying, lazy evaluation, continuations, pattern matching, and closures. And I've got to say that I'm finding functional programming pretty darn ...
Discovered Visor a few minutes ago. It's a cool app which lets you assign a keyboard shortcut to pull down a terminal from the top of your screen. I set my shortcut to Ctrl-\, since Ctrl-F1 (the default) is an awkward combination to type. Note that ...
I started reading Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman's Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, the classic MIT computer science textbook. It's good! And they use Scheme, which is very cool (although it's certainly unlike most other programming languages). I started learning Lisp a long ...
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 felt like writing a list this morning. And I did. It's on Top of the Mountains at
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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 ...
From Software As She's Developed, I came across Wanted: Massive Local Storage this morning:
Local storage - beyond 2KB cookies - is now a step closer with the latest Firefox effort.... The fantastic thing is Brad Neuberg's Dojo work means we can code independently of the local storage mechanism. Since ...
This morning I got a link in my e-mail activating my test Google Spreadsheets account, so I've been playing around with it. It's pretty cool, and I even think it'll work out fairly well for managing my (meager) finances.
The collaboration, with inline chatting, seems cool. I had it ...
Google Spreadsheets is almost out. You can send in your e-mail to be notified when it comes out. This is very cool. :) Goodbye, Excel. It was nice knowing you.
Now I just need to get cracking on Beyond so there'll be a good Web 2.0 ...
On the dev server here at work, I discovered today that we have the Office 2007 beta install. So I installed it on my Windows box, and it's actually kind of cool. The ribbon (the menu replacement) is slick, although definitely different. :) (But it's a good ...
