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| + | ====== 2008-01-08 The Royal Oak, Dorchester ====== | ||
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| + | There was a strong electronics bent to the night' | ||
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| + | The cost of interruptions and open-plan offices versus individual offices: | ||
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| + | * Peopleware, Productive Projects and Teams, 2nd Ed. http:// | ||
| + | * 8. Do programmers have quiet working conditions? | ||
| + | * Holding a Program in One's Head. http:// | ||
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| + | The benefits of colour syntax highlighting when editing source code to avoid attempting to compile syntactically wrong code. | ||
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| + | Cream, a tailoring of the Vim (vi improved) editor so it's easier for novices. | ||
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| + | Two (Ada biased) alumni professors write open letter to their college saying Java is a bad choice for teaching students programming. | ||
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| + | Why regular expressions can't do unlimited-depth bracket matching, and that they' | ||
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| + | How PyParsing, a recursive descent parsing module for Python, overloads operators to make the grammar definition more readable, and can scan text for snippets matching a grammar, saving you from having to specify a grammar that matches the whole text. http:// | ||
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| + | OpenOffice under Ubuntu 7.10 seems to have changed compared with 7.04 so that Jet database access to Microsoft Access databases won't list table' | ||
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| + | Using launchpad to open a bug or question on a bit of Ubuntu, e.g. OpenOffice. | ||
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| + | The problems getting Sage accounting software running under WINE, the re-implementation of Win32 libraries for Unix. | ||
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| + | Using free(1) as an alternative to top(1) to examine memory usage, e.g. `free -tms 5'. | ||
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| + | Mary Lou Jepsen, creator of the OLPC's screen technology, has left OLPC, her work being done, to commercialise the technology in other devices. | ||
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| + | Exporting part of your Linux directory heirarchy using Samba so it can be accessed as a network share in Windows XP running under VMware on the same physical PC. | ||
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| + | Elektor electronics magazine is selling the USBprog in the UK, an open hardware and software USB device for programming microcontrollers designed by http:// | ||
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| + | Sterling dropping against the Euro, pertinent to buying from Elektor above. | ||
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| + | Some of the differences between PIC MCUs and the Atmel AVR used in the USBprog. | ||
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| + | The Arduino, an Atmel ATmega168-based I/O board, as an alternative means of easily dabbling in electronics to the USBprog. | ||
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| + | The trials and tribulations of collecting traffic lights. | ||
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| + | Household electrical wiring in the USA is just plain weird. | ||
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| + | Whether Microchip PIC microcontrollers with USB can act as USB hosts or slaves. | ||
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| + | Many USB devices register as a USB Human Interface Device, and how Bluetooth follows the USB protocol for HIDs. http:// | ||
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| + | ADSL filters don't stop the ADSL signal appearing on the telephone, they only stop the telephone signal interfering with the ADSL signal. | ||
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| + | A just-purchased phone rings on an ADSL filter but two older phones don' | ||
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| + | DEK, a Weymouth company, build machines that use techniques similar to screen-printing to put solder paste on circuit boards ready for surface mounted devices to be stuck on. http:// | ||