Category Archives: Software Development

What’s Not Boring

February 1, 2006 – 7:57 pm

This is not boring: finding a woman who blogs about tech and a great quote from her husband at the same time. First the quote, from Sun’s Tim Bray via Stephen O’Grady:
What’s Not Boring? · Cellphones aren’t boring (of all the J2*E’s, I like one with ‘M’ the best). Open Source isn’t boring. Dynamic […]

By Anne Z | Also posted in Coding, XML | Comments (0)

Separating the Women from the Girls (Or I Know How to Malloc, Do You?)

January 1, 2006 – 5:54 pm

Joel Spolsky complains that kids today don’t know how to use pointers and they don’t get recursion. Why? Because all the top universities are switching from C and C++ to Java for their teaching language. Now Spolsky can’t tell the difference between smart programmers and dumb ones. Smart ones, you see, know how to manage […]

By Anne Z | Also posted in Coding | Comments (5)