Archive: October 13, 2005

Thursday, October 13, 2005

1. Bitvise Tunnelier, "Free* SSH file transfer, terminal and tunneling!"

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2. SIW - System Information for Windows by Gabriel Topala, via Tinyapps. Does a whole lot of stuff.

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3. CSVed: CSV file editor, via Tinyapps.

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4. Joel on Software - Set Your Priorities.

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5. Implementing Higher Order Messages | Lambda the Ultimate (to read).

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6. Macros/Syntax vs. AST manipulation | Lambda the Ultimate (to read).

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7. Communication Nation: How to deal with an angry person:

   Robots require only a source of energy and a series of commands to function. They're purely logical. Why are people so much more complicated? The answer can be summed up in one word: Pride.

   Text from Quick Verbal Tactics.

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8. Communication Nation: Kill your little darlings, via Chris.

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Self-confirmation

It always makes me feel good about myself when I feel like I must not know what I'm doing in an area because I don't know 'X', but then I see some industry luminary who's in the same position. Tim Bray, who works at Sun and whose name is on the XML spec, writes:

Here’s a confession: I’ve never actually set up or administered a CVS, someone else has already done that and I’m basically just a status/diff/update/commit script kiddie.

Me too, though I've set up Subversion repositories. Similar deal with this interview with Bruce Eckel I read a while back.

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