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Category Archives: Programming
The software industry lacks political clout
So I’m still upset at this new Maryland tax on software services. I hope it is not a harbinger of what is to come. Hopefully it is just a bad move that is a short term fix for whatever is … Continue reading
Posted in Programming, Washington DC
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Taxes on consulting?
I woke up this morning and nearly spit out my coffee as I read that the neighboring state of Maryland (I live in Virginia) is going to start charging sales tax on computer consulting – to the tune of 6%. … Continue reading
Posted in Programming, Washington DC
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DC Mac Programmer Meeting – February 23rd
Calling all Mac programmers in the DC area! We’re going to have the first DC Mac Programmer Meeting of 2006. (We last met in November, which I’ll have a recap of later.) And when I say we, I mean the … Continue reading
Posted in Cocoa, Programming
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Creating a branch in Subversion from a specific older revision
Branches in Subversion are quite easy and really lightweight. I think the technical term for this is “cheap copy”, which doesn’t quite do it for me. I mean, I’d rather call it an elegant and efficient copy, but I didn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Programming, Random
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How to fix certain SVN commit errors
If you’re getting an error message that looks like: subversion/libsvn_client/commit.c:832: (apr_err=155005) svn: Commit failed (details follow): Then try backing up your project directory and re-check it out from Subversion using “svn co “. If you then get something that looks … Continue reading
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Mac Programmer Meeting in Northern Virginia – November 17th
We’re having a meeting of the Programming SIG of the Washington Apple Pi, which is the big local Mac users group in the area. It should be fun. The group started rewriting a Cocoa app using Core Data and Bindings … Continue reading
Posted in Cocoa, Mac OS X, Programming
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Review: My Job Went to India
The Pragmatic Programmers just released a great book. It’s titled My Job Went to India (and all I got was this lousy book) – 52 Ways to Save Your Job. It’s also known as MJWTI. If you’re expecting Lou Dobbs, … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Programming
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Act like a business to keep your job
Chad Fowler, who maintains RubyGarden and… well, actually let me just quote from THE Ruby book, the Pickaxe: “Chad Fowler is a leading figure in the Ruby community. He’s on the board of Ruby Central, Inc. He’s one of the … Continue reading
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We need tool builders
“We need to get (students) to the level of creating original works with their skills,” Stephenson said. “We want to see a generation of tool builders, not just tool users, because tool builders have the economic power in the world.” … Continue reading
Posted in Programming
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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
Posted in Cocoa, Desktop Java, Programming, Rails
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