The Jagular

Some work I did on a potential open source project turned up a problem in the BetterListStr class I posted a while back. Turns out there's a flaw in my "double-indexing" technique. Why didn't it crop up before? Because I used the class in a new way. Or, put another way, there wasn't a test plan or a unit test for the class. It was just a little class after all...



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Fortran was the first computer language I learned and the first I got paid to program in. It's sad to see its creator go. His reason for creating Fortran? Lazyness. He said he didn't like writing programs, so he wanted to make the process easier.

IEEE obituary
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Google has a beta application called Notebook that works with selected blocks of text in the browser window. You right click on the selected text, and one of the options is to direct the text to a notebook. The text is copied, with any links intact, to the end of the current notebook. The web page that the text came from is also recorded with the selection. Notebooks can be divided up into sections, and It's possible to have many notebooks and to share them. I think I'll be using this quite bit.

For me, this solves the annoying problem of how to keep track of useful web pages when I work on multiple machines. Yes, I could export/import bookmarks, but I'm lazy. This is even easier.
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