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Monthly Archives September 2008

Good news

In my job I have been learning and programming in C# for the past 4 weeks. It’s been sort of … interesting let’s say. My main task was to enhance/improve/fix an in-house application used mainly for logging support jobs (I work for a company that does IT support) however it has the capabilities of managing [...]

Posted 11 September 2008 § hacking § programming ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Introduction to the Open Telecom Platform @ spawn_link

I’ve recently started dabbling with Erlang and one of the things that I still have to fully grok is OTP. The Open Telecom Platform (OTP) is, allegedly, one of the strongest selling points of Erlang as it provides you with a structure to create fault tolerant, highly available applications … for free. Go figure.
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Posted 06 September 2008 § programming ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Forcing indentation: yes, it is a good thing

At work I’m trying to get some of my colleagues to give Python a try. Every time I bring up the subject I have to hear things like but there are not brackets … and what’s up with the forced indentation?

Needless to say I always reply that indentation is good as the end result is usually code that is easier to read and that once you have blocks of code defined by their indentation level you don’t need brackets anymore. But no, they will have none of that.

Posted 02 September 2008 § programming § rants ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,