I made a decision to discontinue the Cut The Knot column. The column has a distinction of having straddled two decades, two centuries, and in fact, two millennia. It was never meant to last that long. I thank all the readers who cared to send me their sug
The Java virtual machine specification has been written to fully document the design of the Java virtual machine. It is essential for compiler writers who wish to target the Java virtual machine and for programmers who want to implement a compatible Java
I have been thinking much about Metaprogramming lately. I have come to the conclusion that I would like to see more examples and explanations of these techniques. For good or bad, metaprogramming has entered the Ruby community as the standard way of accom
This is a collection of Erlang example programs. The document is also available as a postscript or pdf file. All the programs referred to are available in the archive examples-2.0.tgz. The programs attempt to do useful things, thus you will find complete
In order to deal with both old tag soup written to old browser quirks and new CSS-compliant pages, Firefox (and other Mozilla Gecko-based browsers), Safari, Opera (7 and later), Internet Explorer 6 and 7, Mac IE 5, and Konqueror (3.2 and later) have two m
In this hand-out I treat the notation of truth-functional propositional logic and first-order predicate logic as a language, and give guidance on translating from English into this foreign language. In general, "logical" issues, such as methods for making
Over the last few years web-developers have written many articles about CSS and developed many useful techniques, which can save you a lot of time - of course, if you are able to find them in time. Below you’ll find a list of techniques we , as web-arch
What is that? In case you haven't already used it, prototype.js is a JavaScript library written by Sam Stephenson. This amazingly well thought and well written piece of standards-compliant code takes a lot of the burden associated with creating ri
What's this about? * Language Designers: Looking for operator or function names? Well have a look at the following and remember using existing one may ease the transition :) * Language Users: You know one language and want to find the corresponding operat
The Jargon File is a popular lexicographic resource amongst hackers (and non-hackers too). Although it might have some subjective definitions I may not agree with, I have conveniently quoted verbatim the definitions of the terms "hacker" and "tool" as a p
How many ways are there to manage your task list? Almost as many as there are people with tasks to do. Here are 20 different ways of tracking your to dos, with examples of each.
This is nothing short of impressive. Last April, UC Berkeley, one of the premiere schools in the country, announced its plan to put complete academic courses on iTunes. Fast forward nine months, and you can already find 59 full courses ready for your iPod
[...] Our approach is to define each term independently of any particular implementation, product, or domain of application. So, for example the term event object has popular meanings as a tuple, a vector, a row etc. These are all realizations of events i
Two years ago most Britons didn't have broadband and Web 2.0 was barely a twinkle in a developer's eye. Things have changed - as our cream of the crop for 2006 shows