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Archive for August, 2003
Beginning Web Design series
In: Web development
15 Aug 2003Paul Scrivens has started a series of mini-articles for beginning web designers, starting with Ch. 1 which points out some of the best sites to study as prime case studies for color, layout and liquid design. Mezzoblue and hicksdesign are 2 of the best-looking blogs out there.
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Python & Java comparison article
In: Java
14 Aug 2003Stephen Ferg claims A programmer can be significantly more productive in Python than in Java. in his article “Python & Java: a Side-by-Side Comparison“. The basis of his argument centres around dynamic typing in Python, among other things like code verbosity.
Fatal incident in campus (NUS)
In: Personal
13 Aug 2003I just received notice via email from the NUS President that there was a fatal incident at the Faculty of Engineering this morning. It appears to be an attack of a staff member by another – the case is currently under police investigation. I wasn’t in campus today. Hopefully it isn’t someone I know – [...]
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foreach in Java 1.5
In: Java
13 Aug 2003Joshua Bloch and Neal Gafter’s recent JavaLive chat further talks on generics and typesafe enums, 2 of the more significant new language features in the Java 1.5. There is interesting discussion on generics especially. My favorite though is the enhanced for loop which is similar to the foreach construct in languages like PHP and Python. [...]
New blog on Mozilla Firebird nightlies
In: Mozilla
13 Aug 2003Jesse Ruderman has started The Burning Edge, a blog that helps Mozilla Firebird users “decide which nightlies to use”. Finally a convenient way to find out what’s in those nightly builds. I was so glad to see this, that I got the most recent nightly immediately: New feature: Style Switcher in status bar on pages [...]
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