Inspired by Samuel Tardieu's post, I want to do a year in review of all the languages I have used this year. A lot of times we prima donna programmers complain about anything and everything. I really enjoyed the positive outlook of Samuel's post and want to take note of …
more ...A lot of times people do zany things and try and reinvent wheels when it comes to programming. Sometimes this is good: when learning, when trying to improve state of the art, or when trying to simplify when only Two-Ton solutions are available.
For a current daemon project I need …
more ...UPDATE:
clang_complete is what the people want and what the doctor ordered:
https://github.com/Rip-Rip/clang_complete
let g:clang_snippets=1
let g:clang_conceal_snippets=1
C^X, C^U, profit. Another awesome development for LLVM!
It sucks for C and C++ development.
Popup code completion ("IntelliSense") is a godsend. Instead …
more ...Something I see often in person and online are programmers constantly implementing common solutions, reinventing wheels, or embracing NIH.
Before you do this, please consider the Kev009's Oath - "But First, Write No Code". This is a solution to a variety of problems in software development, but today's article is specifically …
more ...The Register has a good article on Sphinx search with some entertaining pop-shots at Java and "enterprise software" that got a rise out of me:
more ...Solr is popular with the enterprise crowd, who love its Java. Being a Java program, Solr includes no shortage of technology whose acronyms contain the …