vendredi 13 décembre 2002

Back on Word...

Andy Oliver replies that he likes Office 97 and that it's reliable under Wine. I'm not that against Word, I think I started word processing with Word 2.0c under Windows 3.1, it was quite fun :-) After some years, I'm just a bit tired of how non-productive I am with Word. Typically, it loses my  […]

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Why programmers don't like to write documentation?

Because they are given tools like this one: Une exception d'application s'est produite : App : WinWord.dbg (pid=293) Quand : 11/20/2002 @ 15:26:2.408 Numéro d'exception : c0000005 (violation d'accès) fonction : HidOfDlg 30808d23 8b542404 mov edx,[esp+0x4] ss:0102d5e3=???????? 30808d27 8b01  […]

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No more Visual Basic after tomorrow

For one month my job is to maintain a client-server application in VB5. I has not been the most fun thing in my life, but at least it provides some occupation. Quick pros and cons of VB5 : Pros Easy interface designing Keyword With enhances readability for multiples operations on an object Very well  […]

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Why companies lock us with tools as unreliable as Microsoft Word?

jeudi 12 décembre 2002

From LGPL to ASL

Tapestry eventually changed its license from LGPL to ASL. License was probably the main restriction for Tapestry from joining the Jakarta project. Tapestry is a direct concurrent of Struts, and overlaps with other Jakarta projects. Tapestry is bundled with Jetty, a direct concurrent of Jakarta  […]

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mercredi 4 décembre 2002

FreeRoller donation

Today I made a donation to Anthony Eden equivalent to one year quality hosting of 60MB+unlimited MySQL tablespace... I have already one account like described, which could really bear the load of my little weblog, so why pay a second time for a service with no guarantee? I guess I like this idea of  […]

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mardi 3 décembre 2002

Information decay

u {color: green} Returning on the hungarian notation for Java, one very important thing to consider is how to maintain coherent information. If you don't pay attention to maintain your "fbsStatus" and other "hcnChilds" up to date with their real type and use across the  […]

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lundi 2 décembre 2002

I for interfaces?

Some days ago on Otaku, Cedric's weblog, "I is for Interface": The standard argument against such a practice is, again, that it breaks encapsulation: "I am dealing with a type, I don't care if it's an interface or a concrete type." It sounds good, we don't do such discrimination  […]

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