Rudimentary Art of Programming & Development

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The author puts together his experience dealing with various hoops and dance in order to get merchant account.

I think the post is a good experience for other to learn from.

First of all, I’m not sure if this post is for real. If so, shocking. If not, it’s a very good humor.

In short, the real reason why Bjarne Stroustrup created the language is to keep software engineer salary relatively high, C++ developers nowadays indeed have very good salary.

He also mentioned that C++ doomed Mentor Graphic big time.

Read it for yourself.

Tokyo Cabinet is cool because of 2 things:

1. Its name,
2. It spends 0.4 sec writing 1M records.

More and more key-value databases are coming into the web space. I guess they are essential for building the “cloud”.

References:

• Tokyo Cabinet Project Site [SourceForge]
• Ruby binding
• Python Binding
• http://www.igvita.com/2009/02/13/tokyo-cabinet-beyond-key-value-store

A coder called Tav submitted this challenge. Enjoy!

His module was created with the intent to restrict execution to local filesystem.

Some of Apple latest marketing tools show us a little bit of its production factory. I aggregate those here for readers enjoyment.

Here’s a quick tutorial on how to install CouchDB on OS X Leopard:

Prerequisites:

• Make sure you have darwinport installed because that’s how I install mine.
• Make sure you have installed easy_install for Python.

Steps:

• Install Erlang: ‘sudo port install erlang‘
• Install CouchDB: ‘sudo port install couchdb +server‘
• Launch CouchDB: ‘sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.CouchDB.plist‘
• Install couchdb-python: ‘easy_install couchdb‘

See if CouchDB is running:

• Go to ‘http://localhost:5984/‘

Note:

• The most recent CouchDB in darwinport is 0.72. In this version, I’m having problem with creating an ad-hoc View. Reading some posts online, it seems that this problem is solved in version 0.8.

References:

• Installation - CouchDB wiki
• couchdb-python – Google Code

This is one old wiki post that’s continually being updated. There’s not much value in the posting other than entertainment.

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?BondageAndDisciplineLanguage