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Hacker Chat: Pinboard Creator Maciej Ceglowski Talks About Why Boring Architecture is Good, and More Wise words. tags: development I think many developers (myself included) are easily seduced by new technology and are willing to burn a lot of time … Continue reading
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After what felt like thousands of years of font purgatory, fonts have more or less been completely ironed out in modern Linux desktop systems. But that’s not going to stop Java from mucking things up. Start with the fact that … Continue reading
Everything You Love about Java is Everything I Love About Good Design
I just read Why I love everything you hate about Java. You should too. There are some very good points about modularity in there. Unfortunately they are all mixed up with some unnecessarily combative us-vs-them rhetoric. Apparently in Nick Kallen’s … Continue reading
Virtuous Language Design
Eric.weblog() reminded me of an excellent interview with Anders Hejlsberg on generics in C#, Java, and C++. Anders is the kind of person you want in charge of designing a language. In the interview he demonstrates a deep knowledge of … Continue reading
