Languages Span!
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Loading ...I have often been caught in the cross fire of the ongoing and awfully brutal and emotional language wars. I am a C programmer by choice and a PHP/Perl Developer by trade, so I get some of the most heated and misfortunate of the angry or emotionally charged responses from people who just do not know a god damned thing about what they are talking about. Scarier is when I hear absurdities from people who actually do know something about their topic. For some reason they want to stick their toes into my pool and do not like the temperature of the water so they go into a tirade about how I should change the color of the water with some dye and install a heater, oh and the chlorine content is too low or too high and algae will form; who knows, maybe you should add this algae snake as well to keep it from getting to the bottom! I apologize for the extended analogy here but it stands. It is important that Comp Sci. and Developers alike learn at least one thing about languages before they enter the market and end up coding themselves into a corner – There is no such thing as a language level, Languages Span!
Posted on July 25th, 2008 by Bob in Application Development, Game Development, Inspiration, Web Development
True potential – Limitations
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...When I was a youngster, I was handed a firecracker. My experience with it told me that if I was given anything that was lit I was supposed to throw it or I could get hurt. The jerk of a friend of mine, unfortunately, was holding my hand steady, and denied me the freedom to throw said firecracker away. It went off with a loud snap – in my hand, and I was surprised. Not only was it loud, but I still had my fingers. I learned at this time how he had lost the ability to bend his middle finger, and learned a valuable lesson. Limitations are often the most influential factor in the potential of a subject.
Posted on March 17th, 2008 by Bob in Inspiration
New Feature on the horizon
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...One idea I have been tossing around for some time now is to have a weekly or bi monthly challenge on the site. Originally I was approached to come up with 45 challenges for Perl developers but I think this will be more fun if things are kept a bit more open, and not alienating specific language or people.
The challenges will range from artistry and graphic design to programming to technical writing to whatever other doors open up in the future, but at this point in time the programming challenges are going to be the focus. The way this is going to work flows as follows. A challenge will be posted on the right hand side with a link to the detailed requirements in the wiki. All entries are to be submitted to an email address as yet to be determined and are to be written in two languages. Depending on the challenge a base language may be chosen, leaving only the second to be determined by you.
Posted on June 4th, 2007 by Bob in Gneu Website, Inspiration