February 2008 - Posts

Thank you Google!
28 February 08 02:39 PM | andersnoras | 2 Comments   
I got these blog recommendations in Google Reader this morning… …if you recommend this blog to someone who isn’t writing it, that would be even better! Read More...
Next Week's Speaking Schedule
22 February 08 04:24 AM | andersnoras | 3 Comments   
Fredrik Kalseth posted a notice about his talk for the Norwegian .NET User Group’s (NNUG) Vestfold’s chapter, so I thought I’d follow in his footsteps to inform the world about my speaking engagements next week. On Tuesday February 26th Read More...
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Save Java, Dead or Alive!
18 February 08 03:11 AM | andersnoras | 1 Comments   
Whatever language you write in, your task as a programmer is to do the best you can with the tools at hand. A good programmer can overcome a poor language or a clumsy operating system, but even a great programming environment will not rescue a bad programmer. Read More...
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A Jerk in the Land of a Hundred Languages
03 February 08 07:00 AM | andersnoras | 2 Comments   
There is an article in this week’s Economist referring to a paper by Dr. Mark Pagel et al published in the latest edition of Science on (spoken) languages evolving in punctuational bursts. The key point in Dr. Pagel’s research is that evolutionary Read More...
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