No need to use the command line to do this.
It's a lot easier than I"ve seen done in several books.
Just change the Company field on your Address Book Card
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Masterminds of programming
great quote from the book:
from one of the creators of Objective-C (Brad Cox):
Why is computer science not a real science?
Brad: Each time you encounter a new piece of software, you encounter something completely new and unique. How can you have a science where everything is unique?
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If you study gold or lead from day to day, you can measure the properties and employ scientific methods to study them. With software, there is none of that.
from one of the creators of Objective-C (Brad Cox):
Why is computer science not a real science?
Brad: Each time you encounter a new piece of software, you encounter something completely new and unique. How can you have a science where everything is unique?
... See More
If you study gold or lead from day to day, you can measure the properties and employ scientific methods to study them. With software, there is none of that.
Monday, February 15, 2010
Programmer Competency Matrix
Stuff that you should know as a programmer but will most likely never get around to LOL.
Oh well at least it gives a good high level view of how much stuff you don't know:
Note that the knowledge for each level is cumulative; being at level n implies that you also know everything from the levels lower than n.
Oh well at least it gives a good high level view of how much stuff you don't know:
Note that the knowledge for each level is cumulative; being at level n implies that you also know everything from the levels lower than n.
Friday, February 12, 2010
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Algorithms in C#: shortest path around a polygon (polyline routing)
Suppose you have to build a road to connect two cities on different sides of a lake. How would you plan the road to make it as short as possible?
To simplify the problem statement, a lake is sufficiently well modeled by a polygon, and the cities are just two points. The polygon does not have self-intersections and the endpoints are both outside the polygon. If you have Silverlight installed, you can use drag and drop on the points below to experiment:
To simplify the problem statement, a lake is sufficiently well modeled by a polygon, and the cities are just two points. The polygon does not have self-intersections and the endpoints are both outside the polygon. If you have Silverlight installed, you can use drag and drop on the points below to experiment:
new version of Visual Studio 2010 coming out soon
But like WTF it's only designed to run for a week before you gotta reboot your machine?
I guess that's Windows/Microsoft for you :(
The official sign-off criteria is that the end user needs to be able to keep VS open for an entire work week without any noticeable performance degradation (this means 5 days times 8 hours a day).
I guess that's Windows/Microsoft for you :(
The official sign-off criteria is that the end user needs to be able to keep VS open for an entire work week without any noticeable performance degradation (this means 5 days times 8 hours a day).
Sunday, February 7, 2010
What CSC Graduates Should Know
Fundamental Algorithms
These are algorithms that students should know from memory (or with very little help from a reference).
1. Insertion sort.
2. Merge sort.
3. Quicksort.
4. Root finding (binary search, Newton's method).
5. Matrix multiplication (basic algorithm).
6. Gaussian elimination.
7. Radix conversion (e.g. binary to decimal and vice-versa).
8. Tree and graph traversals (preorder, postorder, depth-first, breadth-first)
These are algorithms that students should know from memory (or with very little help from a reference).
1. Insertion sort.
2. Merge sort.
3. Quicksort.
4. Root finding (binary search, Newton's method).
5. Matrix multiplication (basic algorithm).
6. Gaussian elimination.
7. Radix conversion (e.g. binary to decimal and vice-versa).
8. Tree and graph traversals (preorder, postorder, depth-first, breadth-first)
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