“That whereby the rivers and seas are able to receive the homage
and tribute of all the valley streams, is their skill in being lower
than they;–it is thus that they are the kings of them all. So it is
that the sage (ruler), wishing to be above men, puts himself by his
words below them, and, wishing to [...]
As the title implies, I’m doing some brushing up on some technologies in the Microsoft stack. I’m going to keep my bases covered in all areas.
In brushing up on my ASP.NET, I’m reminded of a co-worker who once suggested using Smarty with PHP, for separation of presentation and logic. This feels a lot like Smarty. [...]
Updated 6/29/2009 : 09:15pm
I’ve been thinking for some time about the possibility of starting another website. This blog is certainly where I post general goings-on with me and my programming, but I think it would be cool to create a website dedicated to teaching up-and-coming programmers things, categorized in an easy to navigate way. This [...]
I knew that when I started the job search, I would ultimately end up doing a lot of algorithm development in my interviews, so I made an investment in a good dry-erase whiteboard to practice on. I explained to Susanna that, as a programmer, a whiteboard is just as important as the computer or code [...]
Bachelors degree achieved.
“U.S. officials say the internet, and specifically social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook, are providing the United States with critical information in the face of Iranian authorities banning western journalists from covering political rallies.”
“senior officials say the State Department asked Twitter to refrain for going down for periodic scheduled maintenance at this critical time [...]
I found this today, which some may find useful. It provides prepackaged Eclipse distributions for certain tasks, all ready to go.
http://www.easyeclipse.org/site/distributions/index.html
World is a scary place right now. Something’s got to give.
http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-Economy/idUSTRE5283P320090309
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/09/us.navy.china/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/03/08/nkorea.launch/index.html
This article may be the most important one you ever read, if you’re a programmer, or in any way related to the software industry.
The code below is from an interesting problem I was solving as part of practice for an upcoming programming competition. It’s purpose is to read in a series of strings from an input file (the number of which is defined on the first line of that file), and discover the various permutations of the letters [...]