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• Where's the Discussion Guide?

  Published: July 10, 2007, 6:38 am

  Tags: Ministry Programming

  We changed something that we've done virtually the same way for the past 5 - 7 years. (Can't tell you exactly how long, but it's been a long time.) I really like this change! We're delivering the discussion guide through a vehicle that all attendees at our weekend services touch - the weekend bulletin, program, handout - the thing the greeters

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• How To: Teach a child to program

  Published: July 28, 2007, 2:00 pm

  Tags: How To, Kids, Programming

  were Logo, a kid-specific programming language (who knew?), Lego Mindstorms (robots!), and GameMaker, a free programming interface. If you are teaching your child to program, please share in the comments how you're going about it. Teach a Kid to Program [Wired How To's]

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• Book Review: Programmers at Work by Susan Lammers

  Published: May 10, 2007, 10:28 am

  Tags: Programming And Software Development, Book Reviews, Technology

  of that era about the art of programming. It is not widely in print anymore, but it was easy to find a copy at my local library. When I picked it up at the library I wondered how relevant would it still be? The only constant with technology is how fast it changes. (more…)

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• Favorite Quotations from Programmers at Work by Susan Lammers

  Published: May 9, 2007, 12:20 pm

  Tags: Programming And Software Development, Book Reviews, Technology

  people what their favorite programming quotations are. He throws a sideways reference to Programmers at Work, a book I recently finished reading. I’m one of those annoying people who writes in the margins of books, and one of the things I like to do is collect my favorite quotations so that I can remember them down the road. These are my

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• Don't Overlook Efficient C/C++ Cmd Line Processing

  Published: July 29, 2007, 11:33 am

  Tags: Programming

  An anonymous reader writes "Command-line processing is historically one of the most ignored areas in software development. Just about any relatively complicated software has dozens of available command-line options. The GNU tool gperf is a "perfect" hash function that, for a given set of user-provided strings, generates C/C++ code for a hash

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• In which, iPhone apps are built

  Published: July 30, 2007, 8:00 am

  Tags: Iphone Uikit, Cocoa, Hacks, Hello World, Helloworld, Iphone, Irc Osx86 Hu, Nightwatch, Objective C, Objectivec, Programming, Toolchain, Uikit

  Filed under: iPhone It turns out that creating new GUI iPhone apps is both harder and easier than you expect. Saturday night when the first iPhone UI app proof-of-concept appeared, I was tied up with family. I frantically emailed Mike Rose begging him to get a post out, which, wonderful man that he is, he did. Sunday, I grabbed what time I could,

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• Wikia Acquires Grub, Releases it Under Open Source

  Published: July 30, 2007, 1:37 pm

  Tags: Programming

  An anonymous reader writes "During a keynote address at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference (OSCON), Jimmy Wales announced that Wikia has acquired Grub, the original visionary distributed search project, from LookSmart and released it under an open source license for the first time in four years. Grub operates under a model of users donating their

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• The Completely Fair Scheduler's Impact On Games

  Published: July 31, 2007, 12:13 pm

  Tags: Programming

  eldavojohn writes "We've heard a bit about the completely fair scheduler previously, but now Kernel Trap looks at the implications this new scheduler has for 3D games in Linux. Linus Torvalds noted, 'I don't think any scheduler is perfect, and almost all of the time, the RightAnswer(tm) ends up being not one or the other, but somewhere in between.

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• Blog Tip: Comply With Google AdSense Restrictions On Your WordPress Index Page

  Published: July 31, 2007, 1:29 pm

  Tags: Blog Tips Amp Amp Tricks, Wordpress Theme Tweaks, Computer Programming

  Google's "AdSense for Content" policies restrict every page on your blog to three ad units, three link units, three referral units and two search boxes (see Google AdSense Program Policies). Many of you place at least one ad unit in the content section of each article. On the index page (the home page) it's a good idea to

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• The Completely Fair Scheduler's Impact On Games

  Published: July 31, 2007, 12:13 pm

  Tags: Programming

  eldavojohn writes "We've heard a bit about the completely fair scheduler previously, but now Kernel Trap looks at the implications this new scheduler has for 3D games in Linux. Linus Torvalds noted, 'I don't think any scheduler is perfect, and almost all of the time, the RightAnswer(tm) ends up being not one or the other, but somewhere in between.

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• Blog Tip: Don't Display Google AdSense Within Sponsored Posts On Your WordPress Blog

  Published: August 1, 2007, 2:50 pm

  Tags: Blog Tips Amp Amp Tricks, Wordpress Theme Tweaks, Computer Programming

  There's a reason I inserted the Google AdSense code manually into my WordPress theme. If I were to use a plugin, I wouldn't be able to do what I'm about to explain. Of course, I didn't know that at the time but I knew I might want to do something like this in the future. As I stated in my article, Blog Tip: Comply With Google

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• Hiring Programmers and The High Cost of Low Quality

  Published: August 6, 2007, 5:29 pm

  Tags: Programming

  An anonymous reader writes "Why is it so hard to find good programmers? And why should companies favor hiring fewer more senior developers rather than many junior ones? Frank Wiles discusses his thoughts in his article A Guide to Hiring Programmers: The High Cost of Low Quality"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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• Creative Documentation

  Published: August 6, 2007, 3:59 pm

  Tags: Programming

  FuriousCurio writes "Linux kernel hackers appear to be an endlessly creative group of individuals. In response to previous documentation attempts not having been read by many people, KernelTrap is reporting about how the lguest documentation was prepared to be something of an adventure story. Self-proclaimed to turn you into an lguest expert,

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• Google Trends

  Published: May 24, 2007, 1:39 am

  Tags: Programming

  Google has released Google Trends, a really cool way to see what is going on in the world through what people are searching for. I starting looking at this tonight and figured something was broken when I saw "WCCO", "KSTP" and other Minnesota radio stations in the list but as it happens we had a big storm and I guess people do a lot of searching

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• Beautiful Code Interview

  Published: August 8, 2007, 6:49 pm

  Tags: Programming

  An anonymous reader writes "Safari Books Online has just posted an interview with Andy Oram and Greg Wilson, the two editors who put together the recent O'Reilly book, Beautiful Code. "Beautiful Code" features 33 different case studies about challenging coding scenarios from some of today's most high-profile developers and OS project leaders.

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