- ‘Re: git versus CVS (versus bk)’ – MARC
A remarkably objective (for Linus) comparison of CVS and git. Not that there’s any contest, to be honest. - Who is preventing the release of Java 1.7?
A cautionary tale to anyone who thinks that opensourcing automatically frees software (make sure you read Neal’s response). - HTML5 presentation
Beautiful interactive overview of HTML5 - iPhone/iPad development, by jwz
This is why he sells beer. - INITCOMMONCONTROLSEX Structure (Windows)
When extending interfaces, it’s sometimes wiser to use “2″ as a suffix. - C | //File ISBN Validation System
Who knew validating an ISBN number was so hard? - DataMapper is inherently broken
This is actually a great illustration of the benefits of checked exceptions - Bruce Eckel is Wrong
Checked exceptions are a good thing, learn to use them properly.
#1 by David R. MacIver on April 23, 2010 - 2:20 am
“This is actually a great illustration of the benefits of checked exceptions”
No, it really isn’t. And it takes an amusingly blinkered view to think it is.
#2 by Nicolas Delsaux on April 23, 2010 - 2:49 am
Maybe the most C-idiomatic ISBN checking code I could imagine : just a bunch of switch salted with bit offsets !