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- From Stepanov's 'Elements of Programming': "A discrete Archimedean semiring lacks additive inverses." I've been saying that for years! LOL!11:14 PM Jul 11th from web
- Preparing questions for interview of Alexander Stepanov re his new book "Elements of Programming."6:32 PM Jul 11th from web
- Cleared the decks for next week's big Platypus code-a-thon. Except for one business task, seven days of coding, testing, building. Heaven!!12:28 AM Jul 10th from web
- Groovy is underappreciated as a scripting language. At times, it seems, even by the #Groovy community.12:26 AM Jul 10th from web
- FOSS hosting site tigris.org is wholly down (for hours). It's hard to complain about free hosting, but if I can't check-in code...Kenai.com?1:45 AM Jul 8th from web
- If you love vanilla ice cream, try Haagen-Dazs Five Vanilla Bean. The finest vanilla I've ever had! And vanilla is by far my favorite flavor9:58 PM Jul 5th from web
- Using #Groovy to write functional tests for Platypus. All scripts. Very productive and much more fun than I anticipated.12:21 AM Jul 5th from web
- When designing and not wanting to use UML, I'm finding mind-mapping software to be an excellent solution. Freemind & Xmind are OSS & good.12:21 AM Jul 5th from web
- @Kentbeck. Disagree re bookshelf. Umberto Eco once said of his 30K books: The ones I *haven't* read are the ones that define me. Very subtle2:02 PM Jul 2nd from web
- Writing about calling Ant from w/in Java program to do file and directory management. This approach makes the code truly OS-independent.1:21 AM Jul 2nd from web
- Anyone out there using 'design by contract' in Java? If so, what tool are you using? I found a lot of semi-quiescent OSS tool projects.4:51 PM Jun 24th from web
- How satisfying when you get a complex Ant file to work! Feels like programming- breakthrough elation, except the artifacts aren't as pretty.12:13 AM Jun 24th from web
- RT @kathysierra "rather than focus on our own brand, what if we imagine our job is to realize/improve the 'brand' of our users?" The key!1:49 PM Jun 23rd from web
- Toiling on CI servers: Bamboo, TeamCity & Hudson. Of these, the most intuitive by far was Hudson. Up and running in a snap! Good job Hudson!4:15 AM Jun 23rd from web
- Umm... Joe Levano -> Joe Lovano12:29 AM Jun 22nd from web
- Listening to Joe Levano's album "Rush Hour" Very niiice.12:25 AM Jun 22nd from web
- @dcbriccetti Thx! Had not thought of doing that <sound of lightbulb switching on!>. If I miss the folks I stopped following, I'll do that.1:21 PM Jun 20th from web
- About to remove Twitterers whose tweets I only scan. They bury the tweets I want to read. Don't know how others can follow > 100 Twitterers.11:53 AM Jun 20th from web
- Writing a column on OSI's highly restrictive definition of OSS. Making the case for OSS-with-restrictions licenses, a la Creative Commons.11:46 AM Jun 20th from web
- Green pics do little to help Iran, IMO. But changing your Twitter time to +3:30GMT helps hide Iranian protesters. RT @lakarune #iranelection5:44 PM Jun 18th from web
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- Name Andrew Binstock
- Location Silicon Valley
- Web http://binstock.b...
- Bio Lead developer for Platypus (OSS typsetting software), on staff at InfoWorld and columnist for SD Times, tech analyst, Jolt judge.
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