There’s a general principle to optimization that many people miss, but seems so simple once you know it. I’m sure I first read about it in The Practice of Programming from Kernighan and Pike. You should optimize the most significant part of a program to get the most reward for your effort. The procedure is [...]
Archive for March, 2008
Iraqis Liberated From Bad Ideas
March 12th, 2008
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Last week, the New York Times ran a story on Iraq with the premise that the religious ideas of Islam are being tested and rejected. The author, Sabrina Tavernese, used the phrase, “the American liberation”, which is only remarkable because the reputation of the NYT is that of promoting the idea of the war as [...]
March 2008 PHP Meetup
March 8th, 2008
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At the suggestion of my buddy Lee Springer, I hung out with the PHP geeks at the SF PHP Meetup in the CNET building last Thursday night. A couple of Zend guys talked about version 1.5 of Zend Framework. It was good to get a view into what they are up to, although in many [...]
Gary Gygax Died
March 4th, 2008
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I spent a lot of time in my youth with the worlds Gygax helped create. Some of my fondest memories are related to all night D&D games with my friends. So, it’s sad to hear that Gygax passed away recently. Roleplaying games and programming are intertwined for me. I experienced both when I was about [...]
