Archive: November 30, 2005

Wednesday, November 30, 2005

1. TypingTest.com - Test Your Typing Speed. Pretty good typing test, only I got pretty screwed up by the fact that you're not allowed to go back and edit words after you hit 'space'. So, watch out.

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2. Groklaw: (short but informative) Format comparison between ODF and MS XML (via).

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3. One of the things I'm digging about Firefox 1.5 is that they got rid of the modal dialog that came up whenever a site couldn't be accessed. They've been promising that for a while.

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4. Whitehouse.gov: National Strategy for Victory in Iraq (via Glenn Reynolds). Wonder how it compares to Den Beste's strategic overview (which I just noticed has been updated).

   Also, just read this link, via Reynolds. Since history isn't my strong suit, I learned some things about how we bungled Vietnam in comparison to how we're doing things now.

   Update: Also relevant, from today: Remarks By The President On The War On Terror (via LGF).

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5. Developing Programmers .com » CVS and Subversion: Combined Tutorial (via Keith Gaughan). Seems like a handy comparison in addition to a tutorial.

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6. Bookpool: Cross-Platform GUI Programming with wxWidgets. Good book. By Julian Smart (creator of wxWidgets) and others.

   Just wished it 1. covered wxPython a bit; 2. covered wxStyledTextCtrl; 3. had a chapter discussing different approaches to GUI frameworks, so I could learn some of the details of how GTK, Qt, Windows (Win32, MFC, and .NET), Motif, Swing, SWT and so on compare from someone who'd know the best.

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7. SWiK - "A Wiki for every open source project." Neat wiki implementation.

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