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Multi-Inflection-Point Alert
Tim Bray: “Near as I can tell, we’re simultaneously at inflection points in programming languages and databases and network programming and processor architectures and Web development and IT business models and desktop environments.”
Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:23:05 GMT
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C: Portable Macro Assembler
bbum: “C has always been in the role of the ‘fallback for performance reasons’ solution as soon as developers started writing significant bodies of code in other languages... Even the scripting languages all have supported dynamic loading from the beginning that has always been used for both accessing native functionality and for implementing ‘performance critical’ stuff in native C.”
Fri, 16 Feb 2007 23:30:08 GMT
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Introduction to Open Source Scripting on Mac OS X
Apple Developer Connection: “If you’re new to the world of open source scripting languages—or just want to brush up on what’s unique about Mac OS X—this article will help you get oriented. Mac OS X bundles the most popular scripting languages out of the box: perl, Python, php, tcl, Ruby—not to mention shells such as bash, ksh, zsh, and csh.”
Tue, 02 Aug 2005 02:38:37 GMT
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Automator Programming Guide
Apple: “Apple includes a suite of ready-made actions with Automator, but developers are encouraged to contribute their own actions. You can create actions—which are implemented as loadable bundles—using either AppleScript, Objective-C, or a combination of the two languages.”
Fri, 29 Apr 2005 22:24:33 GMT
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Why Scripting Languages Matter
Tim O’Reilly: “Unlike applications from the previous paradigm, web applications are not released in one to three year cycles. They are updated every day, sometimes every hour. Rather than being finished paintings, they are sketches.”
Thu, 15 May 2003 00:09:38 GMT
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Language Fermentation
Tim Bray on dynamic languages: “They’re saying more or less the same thing: the safety and robustness that strong typing bought us is accomplished way more effectively by good modern testing practices, and given that strong typing is a serious pain in the ass, maybe we’re going all going to end up using dynamically-typed languages like Python.”
Fri, 09 May 2003 23:11:52 GMT
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PHP with Apple's Developer Tools
O’Reilly: “Though normally used with applications built with the Carbon and Cocoa frameworks, Project Builder is an excellent tool for Web developers working in languages like PHP and Perl.”
Mon, 02 Dec 2002 17:21:21 GMT
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PHP iCalendar
It’s a PHP-based iCal file parser that “displays iCal files in a nice logical, clean manner with day, week, and month navigation. It supports 8 languages.”
Mon, 30 Sep 2002 15:31:36 GMT
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Inside the Objective-C Runtime
O’Reilly: “One reason—yes, there are others—that scripting languages like Perl became so popular for building dynamic Web sites is they are inherently dynamic. Being interpreted (rather than compiled) runtime is ‘compile-time.’ Of course there’s a performance penalty (and the lack of type checking—which some might count as a feature—among other issues) and that’s where compiled dynamic languages like Objective-C come in.”
Sat, 25 May 2002 01:35:46 GMT
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GoLive Gets Interesting
O’Reilly: “GoLive 6 features a robust workgroup server; support for common scripting languages such as ASP, JSP, and PHP; drag-and-drop WML authoring for mobile devices; MySQL database for dynamic sites; Apache Web server; and a tighter JavaScript code generator for rollovers and other dynamic goodies.”
Perhaps it’s time for another look at GoLive. Last time I used it, it was GoLive CyberStudio. Adobe hadn’t yet acquired it. I liked it then, but not enough to pay for upgrades.
For nostalgia reasons only: here’s a review I wrote of GoLive in 1997.
Sat, 27 Apr 2002 17:30:06 GMT
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Tips for Building Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL
O’Reilly: “PHP’s popularity stems from its power and flexibility: it is easy to include PHP scripts in HTML documents; it has a powerful performance-oriented library for accessing MySQL; and it shares syntax with other popular programming languages.”
Sat, 06 Apr 2002 03:08:04 GMT
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Template Languages in XSLT
xml.com: “This article will show you how to implement your own specialized template languages by building up a simple example capable of transforming a music database in XML into any form of HTML.”
Thu, 28 Mar 2002 17:50:03 GMT
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Error Handling in PHP
Developer Shed: “No developer, no matter how good he or she may be, writes error-free code all the time. Which is why most programming languages—including PHP—come with built-in capabilities to catch errors and take remedial action. This action could be something as simple as displaying an error message, or as complex as heating your computer’s innards until they burst into flame.”
Wed, 27 Mar 2002 18:28:08 GMT
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