Tagged “programming”
- There Is No Such Thing as the "Appearance of Design"
- Word Embeddings and the Arbitrariness of the Sign
- Wittgenstein Is to Word Embeddings What Alchemy Is to Chemistry
- Commented-Out Code Should Still Have to Compile
- The Two Traits That Make a Programmer Are Laziness and a Bad Memory
- Basic Software Is Turning Into Academia, and the Corporations Have Not Noticed
- Software Should Not Care Where It Was Installed
- Tests Are Build Products, and the Build System Should Own Them
- Database Inheritance: Three Ways to Do It and What Each One Costs
- How to Call system() in Perl Without Getting Burned
- Java runtime environment control
- Producing MySQL dates from Perl
- Building Java With a Makefile Instead of Ant
- Open Source Is Tit for Tat, and Lock-In Is Always Defect
- A WordPress Theme Is Two Files and a Loop
- A WordPress Plugin Is One File and Two Functions
- Real time programming tips: running critical tests at application startup
- Serving a File Out of a MySQL Blob, and Why You Probably Should Not
- A Ten-Line PHP Template Function Is All a Small Site Needs