I happened upon this article, about the double-casting anti-pattern in C#, and I couldn’t help but notice the little pot-shots taken at C++ (and Delphi), to the point that people who exhibit use of this anti-pattern probably came from those weakly-typed languages.
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stop crapping on C++
Thursday, June 28th, 2007net neutrality (and others)
Friday, June 15th, 2007nicer sitewide 404 pages – WordPress
Sunday, March 18th, 2007So I was reading through the blogosphere this morning, and I came upon this article: Creating User Friendly 404 Pages. Since I find myself also somewhat annoyed at bad 404 pages (hence the reason why I use the ErrorZilla firefox add-on), I decided to become a part of the solution, and not just bitch at the problem.
coolest. website. ever.
Sunday, March 4th, 2007
abstract algebra and office 2007
Thursday, March 1st, 2007Seems I forgot to post one of the finals. For Abstract Algebra I, we had to write a report on something related to the course, so I spent a few hours (2am-4am) Wednesday morning writing about check-digit schemes. Nothing too exciting, but perhaps you can take this as a selling point for Microsoft Office 20007. This took 2 hours, and it doesn’t look to shabby at all. Here’s the report: Check Digit Schemes Based upon Weighted Multiplication and Dihedral Groups. And if you haven’t already, go download a 60-day trial for Office 2007. All my most-wanted features have been implemented: better support for styles, awesome TeX-like equation editor, and automatic works cited/bibliography management(!), and the ribbon (yes, I like the ribbon). And no, I’m not a Microsoft fanboy, as I think Office 2007 is the first half-decent Microsoft product since XP (which was partially decent).
wordpress author comment highlight, part 1
Saturday, February 24th, 2007One of my favorite parts of Raymond Chen’s blog, The Old New Thing, is how Raymond’s comments are all nicely highlighted. If you head over there, you’ll see what I mean. He can either write comments on an existing comment (which shows up as a contained box with a highlighted color) or just write a comment on the post, which also shows up highlighted. Either way, it makes it really easy to pick out Raymond’s comments in the resulting conversations about his posts. Since I was jealous, I decided to figure out how to do this. In this part, I’m going to show you how to add the second feature, which is making any author comment highlighted. Compared to the sub-comment, this is just a minor update to a few files.
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Microsoft interview
Thursday, February 8th, 2007So, I’ve unofficially been on blog-cation for the last few months. Don’t worry, it’s not that I’ve become less pessimistic about the world, or that I don’t have enough grading to complain about (trust me, I just finished CG1, and they are as awful as they were the last time I graded this course/project). I’ve just been, well, lazy. There you have it.
To the point, I just attended the Microsoft night-before-interview thingy at RIT, which was supposed to ease students’ worries about their interviews over the next few days. Unfortunately, the night seemed to do very little in that department.
To whoever wants to be my new best friend:
Thursday, October 12th, 2006I am a House fan. I attend House addicts anonymous twice a week, often times appearing at meetings with a cane and a sour outlook on life. With all of the progress I’ve made through countless hours of hypnotherapy and hot stone massages, I still find my life with one gaping hole in it: I can’t find (non-broken) recordings of episodes 1 and 2 from the current season (Season 3). Until I find them, my life will be but a sad travesty of seasons 1 and 2. So, if you want to be my new best friend, please find me hdtv recordings of the new episodes. Pretty, pretty please.
nvidia answers
Sunday, October 8th, 2006Finally, you say. Thanks to everyone who posted answers as responses to the original nvidia test post. Here we go:
Firefox 2.0 RC2
Saturday, October 7th, 2006Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, step up to receive your copy of Mozilla Firefox 2.0 RC2. Find out what is new, and then go and download it for yourself!