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Is HTML a Humane Markup Language?
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001116.htmlOne of the things we're thinking about while building stackoverflow.com is how to let users style the questions and answers they're entering on the site. Nothing's decided at this point, but we definitely won't be giving users one of those friendly-but-irritating HTML GUI browser layout controls. …
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Cleaning Your Display and Keyboard
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001115.htmlLet's say, just as a hypothetical, you're sitting at your computer, casually chatting up a fellow programmer. You begin to describe some bit of code, then bring it up on your display to illustrate. You want to highlight some particular part of the code. …
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Blog de Alejo
http://www.alejolp.com/blogson nobles, a nadie le importa en qué lenguaje está hecho el juego. Los usuarios solo quieren jugar AO :) Espero que dentro de poco eso pueda cambiar. No a los forks. Si a lo que los usuarios quieren. EDIT 2008-05-17: Jeff Atwood escribió un post en su blog al respecto de éste tema de Pidgin.
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Four Words for Funpidgin (Updated w/ comments)
http://weblog.obso1337.org/2008/four-words-for-funpidgin/Coding Horror
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Company of Heroes: How not to lose, and how to deal with it!
http://pswii603.blogspot.com/2008/05/company-of-heroes-how-n...them in a "Golden Edition" for 39.99. This is what you want if you're gonna buy this game, 'cause once you get the original and play online with the OF users, you're gonna die to have it yourself. So download those and continue reading this article.
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Wordpress
http://blog.simpleigh.com/2008/05/wordpress/Coding Horror: I’ve been thoroughly impressed with the community around WordPress, and the software itself is remarkably polished. That’s not to say that I haven’t run into a few egregious bugs in the 2.5 release, but on the whole, the experience has been
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Christopher Miller's random thoughts
http://anotherlab.rajapet.netOh Yeah? Fork You!
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Love thy critics
http://alekdavis.blogspot.com/2008/05/love-thy-critics-at-le..."by programmers, for programmers, with the ultimate intent of collectively increasing the sum total of good programming knowledge in the world." The new site is still at an early stage, but hopefully it will continue the traditions of Coding Horror/Joel on Software and turn into the source of knowledge and entertainment for programmers and other tech lovers. I'm delighted that my favorite bloggers now produce podcasts and other technical content together, but I'm even more fascinated about the
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Pranav ... Blogging
http://blogs.msdn.com/pranavwagh/default.aspx. Here is the ans - All of this thing started with Joseph Cooney – He got an interestingly funny and brilliant idea. Which, in itself, serves as a code disclaimer. Then Jeff Atwood(coding horror fame …) zazzed things up and came up with following images! Maybe this is really a disclaimer that I was looking for -
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==A Million Little Markups==
http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2008/05/a-million-littl.ht..., and you're right. The problem comes when the user has to remember which particular markup syntax to use on each of the literally one million sites he or she contributes to. That is a huge hassle. As Jeff at Coding Horror and Jeremy at iRi point out, it's much better to just use good old HTML, which if your users don't know yet they will need to learn at some point. It's fairly simple and readable, and most importantly it's standard.
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The Blinking Cursor
http://blog.theblinkingcursor.orgBill Clementson Guido van Rossum Guy Kawasaki Jeff Atwood Joel Spolsky Miguel de Icaza Pascal Costanza Paul Graham Programming Reddit Python Magazine Reg Braithwaite Steve Yegge Tim Bray
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Why Does Vista Use All My Memory?
http://vista.compspies.net/2008/05/16/why-does-vista-use-all...xp and upgrade price approach to memory management. volunteers in service Check volunteers in service out the "Physical Memory, volunteers in service Free" digital media premium system minimum requirement vista window column in my Task Manager… read more
