Programming reference cards

http://www.digilife.be/quickreferences/quickrefs.htm

I'm looking for a C++ reference... if anyone can recommend a good one that's online I'd appreciate it. Or, if there are any good ones in book form that aren't expensive I'd like that too.

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Great quotes

Check out Keith's quotes page. Lots of great quotes.

"The right to be left alone is indeed the beginning of freedom." (Justice William Stephens)

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22:18 (utc-4)

 

Why Namespaces are Unnecessary

Yes! Exactly what I've been saying all along about why namespaces are unnecessary:

... even if you don't use the actual Dublin Core namespace or the actual Dublin Core element names, you can *define* your own element by saying that is a particular Dublin Core concept (like dateCreated, or dateModified, or whatever other dates may make it into the model). These concepts have been well-defined for years, and you can re-use the concepts without re-using the syntax.

I don't think Mark will agree with my conclusion, but that's ok It's only one of my reasons for being hostile towards namespaces.

Anyway, I'll be happy with the new format as long as it supports a "name" field in whatever "wire" format they come up with, and as long as it supports a dateModified field in addition to a dateCreated field.

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My Database Professor wrote Gadfly

Turns out my database systems professor wrote Gadfly. Neat.

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Scary Java statistic

Via Adam, Java Luminaries figure out that Java is complex.

Also, see this article from ZDNet Australia which contais a scary statistic on Java:

To date, around 70 percent of initial Java implementations have been unsuccessful, according to new research from Gartner Group.

"An inordinately large number of large-scale Java projects have been failures," said Mark Driver, Gartner research director for Internet and ebusiness technologies.

Though I have no clue how they can possibly know that, do you?

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Harry Potter logistics

Via Matt, check out this neat article at the Washington Post describing some of the planning involved in getting millions of huge books out to eager fans on the first day of release. I wish the article had a little more detail, but it's still interesting.

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