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Category Archives: Programming
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
Posted in Cocoa, Desktop Java, Programming, Rails
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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
Posted in Cocoa, Desktop Java, Programming, Rails
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Project Post-mortems
Post-mortem (noun) – what a good programmer writes after he’s released a product. Also known as project retrospective or after-development report. Here’s some thoughts on the post-mortems by Gus on VoodooPad 2.0 and Brent on MarsEdit 1.0 (which was spun … Continue reading
Posted in Mac OS X, Programming
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Proposal to reduce repetition with Swing and SWT listeners
DRY – Don’t Repeat Yourself We know that this is good, since it reduces code maintenance, so why do we persist with writing listeners like this: (Note that this is example is written with SWT; Swing looks almost the same.) … Continue reading
Posted in Desktop Java, Programming, SWT, Swing
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Back from a week of studying Cocoa
As a wise man (Brent Simmons of NetNewsWire fame) once said in a blog post explaining MySQL to Frontier users: “Old programmer’s philosophy: if you work primarily (or exclusively) in one environment, it’s a good idea to learn about others. … Continue reading
Posted in Cocoa, Programming
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No Fluff Just Stuff
I spent the last few days at what’s called either a) the Northern Virginia Software Symposium (the boring name) or b) No Fluff Just Stuff (the cool name.) Why “No Fluff, Just Stuff”? Well, its all technical sessions by developers … Continue reading
Posted in Desktop Java, Programming
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Hello World!
With every new language you learn, you really should learn how to write “Hello World” in it. That’s how I’ve done it ever since I learned how to write in BASIC on my dad’s Timex Sinclair. I think I inherited … Continue reading
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