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Freedom Zero: The All-Or-Nothing Fallacy

  • January 29th, 2008
  • Posted in Uncategorized

Jeff Atwood has an article up today bemoaning the fact that seemingly nobody “gives a crap about freedom zero”. Well, my initial reaction was that surely nobody could care about something with such a thoroughly ridiculous name. Freedom Zero? Really? I know this is the FSF’s first freedom, and programmers count from 0 don’tcha know, [ READ MORE ]

Technical Book Club: Object Oriented Analysis & Design, Chapter 1

  • January 27th, 2008
  • Posted in Book Club . Software Engineering

So, as previously mentioned, we’ll start with the basics. This material is probably very familiar to most coders with even a small amount of experience, but it never hurts to refresh the fundamentals. You may even find that there’s some material that seems so obvious you don’t even actively think about it any more – [ READ MORE ]

Fab Fib

  • January 26th, 2008
  • Posted in Coding . Software Engineering

Scott Hanselman continues his Weekly Source Code series with a look at algorithms for generating the Fibonacci sequence in a variety of different languages. He misses my favourite implementation, though fortunately a wise commenter has already sought to correct such an egregious error. As is so often the case, it is Haskell that provides the [ READ MORE ]

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