See Programming Languages I've Learned (more-or-less in order) [Update].
This came up on Twitter and Fosstodon.
See https://fosstodon.org/@vpavlyshyn/109908255464181943 and https://fosstodon.org/@slott56/109908527412493172.
I omitted a few things from the list because -- well -- there are a LOT of languages.
For example, in the 90's I …
more ...I'm undecided if this goes into the next book. Maybe this is a teaser... And yes, this is a Python to the Rescue story.
I live on a boat. See Red Ranger Blog for details. What's essential is this little complication.
The South Gulf Cove Boat Lock.
The lock keeps …
more ...Behave fixtures totally rock for testing complex applications.
I had been doing them wrong. Doing them right is simpler.
I'm a fan of the Gherkin language for specifying the behavior of software.
Scenario: Works for Me Given a configuration When a request is made Then the response can …
Check out Carol Johnson's book The Language of Work: Technical Communication at Lukens Steel, 1810 to 1925 . It puts technical writing in a bigger perspective.
The cool thing is dragging meaning out of a corpus of documents.
more ...See the Electric Skateboard in XKCD. "You don't realize how much time you were spending on the boring parts until you don't have to do them anymore."
A helpful answer to "Why is Python so cool?" Fewer Boring Parts.
more ...First, I wrote a book on Programming with Python. It was back in the Python 2.0 days (2001 or thereabouts.) I used AppleWorks, and it was fun. Write all you want, put in formulae, code samples, everything. A few style sheets to give it a reasonable look and I …
more ...Kontrawize author Anthony Coates warns that this is an attractive time sink. Thanks for the heads up.
My first round of research found HTML Slidy , but didn't find DocUtils + S5 . S5 is simpler and does less than Slidy. RST markup is far easier to cope with than HTML. This looks …
more ...PPT has one big advantage: it is written by the same people who wrote Windows. So it can seize the Windows display and keyboard, and take control over the entire UI. I happen to think that's A Bad Thing™ but I may be in the minority on that.
Of course …
more ...I've been using the Apache FOP http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/ to transform XSL:FO into PDF's. FOP works well enough for some DocBook processing, but it can't handle really complex stuff gracefully.
Can we also use this XSL:FO technology for producing PDF form letters as part of a …
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