articles . Fire and Motion

Filed Under (SoftDev (non-VFP)) by WildFire on 14-03-2004

Having that ‘i-can’t-code/i’m-not-in-the-mood-to-do-programs’ syndrome lately..? Joel Spolsky talks about this in his Fire and Motion article he wrote a couple of years ago. Good and well written words, no matter how old, just don’t vanish… much more in this digital age.

Here’s a newer one that might help the graduating class of this year: Getting Your Resume Read. In our country, March is the time when [0001] graduates are shifting those tassles from left to right, [0010] students are slowly facing the ‘real world’, [0011] students began to cringe at the thought of losing their allowances and [0100] they are whole-heartedly ‘welcomed to the ranks of the unemployed’.

article . NET Guidelines compilation

Filed Under (Random.links, SoftDev (non-VFP)) by WildFire on 13-03-2004

A compilation of new .NET Design Guidelines.

Well… aside from ThinkGEEK, there’s Engadget too for your gadget-related cravings. Don’t you just love those XML/RSS feeds?

NF . PCMAG database white papers

Filed Under (SoftDev (non-VFP)) by WildFire on 07-03-2004

There’s a good bunch of database-related white papers (and links) at PCMAG.com WhitePapers section.

NF . Allegiance

Filed Under (SoftDev (non-VFP)) by WildFire on 06-03-2004

Hmm… interested in downloading a 512MB Network Game source code? Releasing the source code comes from the company you least expect to do such move… Microsoft. ALLEGIANCE… is the name of the game. I’m still figuring out how i can use GetRight with this download.

articles . color

Filed Under (SoftDev (non-VFP)) by WildFire on 06-03-2004

Non-foxpro related but still interesting articles to read:

Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years
Garbage Collection Myth is Real
Design Guidelines for Class Library Developers
.NET Framework Resource Management

What is a Color?
Colors Undocumented
Never knew that handling colors programmatically is this fun… in a ‘geeky’ sense of way.

NF . technological warfare

Filed Under (Random.links, SoftDev (non-VFP)) by WildFire on 29-02-2004

UHM… yes, software can do this. And this was what… twenty years ago. Just imagine what it can do these days.

Wired Magazine’s The Complete Guide to Googlemania! Anything Google related is interesting… and in some ways, inspirational.

NF . 70PERCENT Good

Filed Under (Random.links, SoftDev (non-VFP), THIS.site.matters) by WildFire on 25-02-2004

http://www.richardbase.com/foxpro/news/ is 70% GOOD and 30% Evil. While both ‘WildFire’ and ‘foxpro.catalyst’ is 99% GOOD / 1% Evil. Check Gematriculator for yourself. Have fun.

This User Interface != Usable Interface article by Sriram Krishnan points out an important issue that some, if not most, programmers seem to neglect.