ah ha! This is handy! How to use CVS without going insane is a list of must-have commands for creating, maintaining and using a CVS repository, or maybe I should use something else?

This essay has been linked to death but I just got around to reading it. Printing it out for consumption later!

Ooh! Cool! Python on the C64! including a screenshot of the interpreter working. Must download and play with this! hehe.

It looks like Python may be making it’s way to a Series 60 mobile phone soon! I may actually learn how to code in Python if this becomes available!
On that note, I may buy a new phone. The keyboard on my 7650 is getting cranky, some keys need to be pressed hard, others print characters twice. I could take the phone apart and clean the keyboard but now the plastic cover on the thumbstick/joystick thingy is coming apart. If I buy another phone, I’d like another Symbian device – Triz really is a great Tetris clone that I’d miss. Now, if I could only get a version of Go! for the phone I’d be happy and content.

I got about half way through this article before I realised I’m really not interested in it. If I was coding a demo or something that was performance critical then I’d use C/C++ possibly with a dash of ASM but otherwise, give me the garbage collecting, lots of data types, memory checking, higher level languages any day.

Introduction to the Firebird Database – A brief introduction, but good reading if you haven’t used it (like me!)
Custom Underlines – oh cute! CSS underlining of links using graphics!

A long thread on Computer Science was started by Niall O Broin earlier today. It went through the usual arguments about what constituted CS and what was important. Some argued that low lever languages were a waste of time as most developers won’t ever touch that aspect of programming, but I tend to agree with Kenn Humborg and say that ASM is important, and anyway, it’s fun and logical and more interesting in many ways than high level coding!

Simon Sillison posted a great article on making forms more usable. I use a few of the techniques already but I didn’t know others. A comment left on his site indicates problems with browsers other than Mozilla, so maybe it’s about time you all upgrade!

There’s probably something to be said for this quote but I would hasten to add that once you start hacking I don’t think everything that’s been learnt before goes out the window!

First learn computer science and all the theory. Next develop a programming style. Then forget all that and just hack. — George Carrette

Esos shows a good way of removing duplicate entries from a database table. Of course, if primary keys were used this shouldn’t happen, but doing a select distinct into another table is neat !