Ways to Do It According to the Programming Languages of the World
Take the Perl motto (“There’s more than one way to do it”) and extrapolate it to the other programming languages out there.
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Shlomi Fish’s Funny Bits
Funny short scale stories I wrote - often just a pageful or two.
IRPWUG Announces Project WYSIWYT
The “International Really Pissed-off Windows Users Group” (IRPWUG) announces the project “What you See is What you Think” (WYSIWYT).
“Spam for Everyone” - the International Campaign for Accessible Spam
Make yourself heard now!
The GPL is not Compatible with Itself
Havoc awaits when a huge problem is discovered in one of the most popular open source licences.
Introducing RMS-Lint
Announcement of a tool to facilitate communication with Richard M. Stallman. See also the Slashdot discussion.
Wonderous are the Ways of Microsoft
How compatible are Windows 3.11, Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0?
“I Like Job Control”
A humorous geek song to the tune of “I Love Rock-N’-Roll”.
“Cracka’s Paradise”
A geek parody of Coolio’s “Gangsta’s Paradise”.
Mastering cat
An interview with me about a new book I’m publishing in O’Reilly about how to master UNIX’s tricky “cat” command.
Programs Every Programmer Has Written
A useful checklist.
COBOL - the New Age Programming Language
The best programming language that ever existed or that can ever exist.
It’s not a Fooware - It’s an Operating System
Software applications which are so comprehensive that they contain (almost) everything.
Announcing Freecell Solver™ Enterprise Edition
You’d better believe it…
“I’m the Real Tim Toady”
A Geeky Perl song inspired by “I'm the Real Slim Shady” by Eminem.
“Can I SCO Now?”
A geeky song sang to the music of “Can I Go Now?” by Jennifer Love Hewitt.
Freecell Solver™ Goes Webscale
Another great innovation from Freecell Solver Enterprises™.
Freecell Solver Enterprises™ Acquires Google Inc.
Breaking news about a small, but important, strategical acquisition.
New Israeli Tech Usergroups
No tool is too small to spend hours discussing…
The GNU Project Will Integrate GNU Guile into GNU coreutils
Because Scheme belongs everywhere including in your toaster…
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) Announces New Versions of the GPL
“FOSS developers don’t have enough choice when it comes to licensing.”.
Google to Discontinue More Services
Google announced it will discontinue its web search, Gmail and its Google Docs services.
Emma Watson Interview for a Software Developer Position
Emma Watson is a 1990-born British actress and model, who rose to fame playing Hermione in the Harry Potter films, and (quoting from the Wikipedia page):
In October 2013, she was voted Sexiest Female Movie Star in a worldwide poll conducted by Empire magazine. In May 2014, BuzzFeed dubbed her the “most flawless woman of the decade”.
Now the question is: does she have what it takes to work as a Java enterprise software developer… ;-).
The Song “Wide Awake” by Katy Perry is Evil!!!
And to think it is the kind of video that 8 year olds watch twice a day.
Announcement: The Atom Text Editor has been Able To Edit a 2,000,001 Bytes-Long File
A remarkable scalability milestone is reached for the popular text editor.
Who gets the final say?
Who gets the final say, before and after marriage? A memoir.
The story of my first kiss
A memoir.
Emma Watson Visit to Israel and Gaza
A sort-of-sequel to the previous bit, this bit explores what will happen if Ms. Watson decides to visit the Gaza envelope and the Gaza strip.
Announcing “HTML 6”, the New Version of the Web
A significant step forward…
See Also
Collections of Factoids - about Chuck Norris/etc.
