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Mono 2.8 has been released
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Gave up a day job Now what? - Income report #3
So here is my another monthly income report. At the beginning I would like to thank to all my loyal readers that are visiting my site (leave a comment on this post with a short HI if you want me to…
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Why writing software is not like engineering
While my talent lies in software, my graduate studies were in computer engineering (designing and building digital computers). One observation always struck me: computer engineering seemed more straightforward than computer science (building software). There are a set of engineering design rules to follow and…
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I just released F.lux for Ubuntu (fades your screens at night)
F.lux for Ubuntu is an indicator applet (like the new Messaging Menu), so it works very nicely on Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10
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Lua Doesn't Suck – Strange Loop 2010 20-minute talk video
At Strange Loop 2010 , I gave a 20 minute talk on Lua. The talk briefly covered six reasons ( why , not how) to choose Lua for embedded scripting. Lua is safe, fast, simple, easily learned, and more popular that you might expect.
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Code as photo-op
There's an article in today's NY Times about a group of four NYU comp sci students who are embarking on a great adventure to create a decentralized version of Facebook, where the data is under the user's control.
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Drinking the Node.js Kool-Aid
I’ve written dozens of event loops for network services, in C, C++, Python, Perl, Java, Lua, Go and probably other languages at this point. They all make me reinvent handling of events, none of them are perfect, some are faster than others, but in the end, it is a waste of my time to rewrite them.
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Two things every Unix developer should know
Unix programming can be tricky. There are many subtleties many developers are not aware of. In this post, I will describe just two of them.....
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A Summary of "Joel on Software"
This is a summary for the blog by Joel Spolsky, Joel on Software , volume 2000. The summary for the years 2000-2010 can be found on the Joel...
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Why your Android app doesn't need an exit button
A couple of weeks ago I published my first Android App Surgery , a technical review of MySettings from JQSoft. One of my UX suggestions wa...
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