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Peter Norvig's paper cited by Brendan Eich
I'm reading Coders at Work and Brendan Eich cites a paper by Norvig, from when he was at Harlequin, "about how design patterns are really just flaws in your programming language."
Can anyone provide the link to this paper?
Juliano
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Coming up with a valid ranking algorithm for articles
I'm creating a website which will publish one or more articles a week.
I'd like to be able to rank the articles based on popularity. In order to do this, I need a formula to calculate a score for each article. This formula should reward popular…
kettlepot
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Authoritative sources for exception handling best practices
My work place suffers from a bad case of the Pokemon Exception Handling anti-pattern with constructs like the following splattered across the code base:
try {
...
} catch (Exception ex) {
// Log and pretend nothing happened.
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Björn Lindqvist
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Mobile Web Security Articles
I'm starting to introduce mobile web apps to my company but my not-so-techie boss is worried about web security issues on mobile devices.
I'm new in the mobile world but as a web developer I know the basics about web security (like the best…
Roberto Linares
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Where to publish articles about open source?
I've been developing a free, open source Java database abstraction project (jOOQ) and I have released first stable releases from November 2010 onwards. Feedback has been quite good and constructive, and I am very motivated to continue my work.
In…
Lukas Eder
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Background & Research Methods section (Writing an Article)
It is my first time writing an article on a software project. I am supposed to use ACM UbiComp paper format. I already have a structure that I should follow and there is a Background & Research Methods section after Abstract, Introduction, Related…
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