Monthly Archives: May 2005

Calling all Mac developers in Washington DC / Virginia / Maryland

I want to start up a Mac developer group in the DC Area that would bring together Mac programmers, focusing on Cocoa. I figure that there must be several of us out there, but we just don’t know each other … Continue reading

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Iterating over OrderedCollections

One of the things you want to do after having an OrderedCollection (aka List or Array) is to iterate over the elements. I’ll look at the languages I’m interested in: Smalltalk, Java, Objective-C, Ruby, Python, and C#. First off, Smalltalk. … Continue reading

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Comparison of OrderedCollections in Smalltalk, Java, Objective-C, Ruby, Python, and C#

In my last post, I compared the collections classes at a high level. Now I’m diving into the one that is most often used, the OrderedCollection. What’s an OrderedCollection? It is the collection class in Smalltalk that supports ordering. Seems … Continue reading

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Comparison of Collections in Smalltalk, Java, Objective-C, Ruby, Python, and C#

Why look at collection classes? Well, after reading a bit about the language syntax and writing “Hello World”, I think the next thing you should learn about a language/framework is its Collections classes. Its one of the things that makes … Continue reading

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How to find out what you like to do

When I was in 5th grade, I took a test in school that would tell me what career I would be best suited for. My top two results were Radio DJ and Engineer. I’ve never been a DJ, but I … Continue reading

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Eclipse 3.1M7 released

Like clockwork, the Eclipse team has released Eclipse 3.1 M7, which is the last milestone build before the official Eclipse 3.1 (which should come out in late June.) There’s a few new features, but I think the main focus in … Continue reading

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Everybody loves Command-Space

I’m running Tiger full-time now and its great. Spotlight is one of the best new features in it and I’m looking forward to more and more programs becoming Spotlight enabled (like VoodooPad). I’ve got an app I’ve been working on … Continue reading

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Washington Wizards make it to the 2nd round!

Finally, after a long drought of 23 years, the Washington Wizards win a playoff series. They beat the Chicago Bulls 4 games to 2 tonight at home in the MCI Center, located in downtown Washington DC (right near Chinatown actually). … Continue reading

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Nerds don’t have to be unpopular

Graham lent me this great book Hackers and Painters which I just finished reading. I highly recommend it to anyone who loves to program. Or if you want to understand how programmers think. It is interesting that Paul Graham chose … Continue reading

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