Archive for August, 2005
Brevity As a Virtue
I remember that when I was in school learning C++ (as the default language they taught at the time) I had a strong aversion to Java. I even got into a debate or two about C’s virtues when compared to Java’s. This is funny to me now because I’ve been doing professional Java programming for [...]
The Renesis of SVG
Just heard a very interesting presentation and (amusing) question and answer period on Renesis, the soon to be released SVG viewer and development platform from EvolGrafix. It was one of the parts of the conference I was most looking forward to (for practical reasons) and I was not disappointed (though it would have been nicer [...]
Interesting Coinages
Well, I’m here in The Netherlands. It is really beautiful (though I didn’t research the weather well enough… I’m not as prepared as I could have been for this 60 degree weather (I left NJ in the 100s)). Anyway, along with a handful of Euros, I’ve also found a few new ‘coinages’ on the Web [...]