Suppose (just for the sake of discussion) you wanted to share some blog postings with a group of people at work - and the company email system uses Outlook 2003. Sending HTML email with the blog posting seems like it would be a nice way to do it. But getting Outlook …
Posted Wed 02 April 2008 by mcherm in Uncategorized
When I was a physics student one of the things that I learned to do was "unit analysis". That's where you simply consider what units an answer has: is it in meters, or meters squared? Surprisingly, there is an enormous amount that can be learned just by doing unit analysis …
Posted Sun 30 March 2008 by mcherm in Programming
Here are the plugins I commonly use for Firefox:
I've been interviewing lately for "senior programmer"
positions. I find it outright astonishing how many applicants for
these positions lack what I would consider the most fundamental of
programming skills. Some people have suggested using
FizzBuzz
(a trivial programming exercise) as a filter; what I use is a discussion
of …
Posted Sun 17 February 2008 by mcherm in Programming
I'm beginning to wonder whether I'm turning into an "old fogey" of a computer programmer. You know, the elderly fellow who has an office near the server room; the one who always objects to the use of any new technology and goes on at length about "the good old days …
Posted Sat 02 February 2008 by mcherm in Programming