Archive for May, 2008
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
Zen Mind, Programmer’s Mind
“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.” – Suzuki
As programmers of an application or feature, we quickly develop our own preconceptions as to how the software should work. Every day that we spend working on something, the use patterns of that feature become more and more hard [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Programming by Scott Hackett
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Tutorial: Adding Language Support to SlickEdit
In this article, I am going to illustrate how to add very simple support for a language that, out of the box, is not already handled by SlickEdit. To this end, I am choosing “Logo” as an example. I made this choice partially as a follow-up to Scott’s article about using it as [...]
5 Comments » - Posted in Programming by Dennis B
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
What Would I Do Without Programming?
One of my friends lost his job this week. He worked in the chem department of a pharmaceutical company, doing something that went completely over my head while he was explaining it to me. What I got from his description was that it was not the kind of work that’s particularly easy to find and [...]
