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Developer's Corner / Tech Presentations (site)
« on: January 19, 2009, 02:17 AM »
Recently, I came across the site "Tech Presentations" when researching specific presentations.  So far, I take "Tech" in this context to mean mostly related to the Internet.

From the about page of the associated blog:

Authors of this blog are digging up technical presentations from different conferences and events.

Quite often such presentations share information that can’t be found in books or articles and can give you insights at technology advances, company culture and even people personalities.

One nice thing the site provides is different views of the collected presentations, including by:

  • Conferences
  • Presentations
  • People
  • Companies
  • Locations

TechPresentationsLogo.png

http://www.techpresentations.org/

Perhaps other folks will find this to be of some use at some point :)

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Site/Forum Features / Viewing Subsets of Unread Posts?
« on: January 15, 2009, 07:06 AM »
I was getting overwhelmed by the number of unread posts I encountered via "Show unread posts" so I tried fiddling with various URLs.  Below is what I've been using for some days now and I feel a bit less swamped:


I access these via my browser's bookmark bar -- may be there's a better way, but this is what I've come up with at the moment.

May be there are better ways to get at subsets of unread posts.  Any ideas?

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Developer's Corner / "Code Reading" by Diomidis Spinellis
« on: January 11, 2009, 02:47 AM »
Has anyone read "Code Reading" by Diomidis Spinellis [1]?

I am considering whether to obtain this book and am interested in DC folks' opinions regarding it.

If there are any other relevant resources concerning the improvement of one's ability to go from "no understanding" to "good understanding" of a piece of software that has at least source code available [2], I would be happy to hear about these too.

Any feedback and comments welcome :)


[1] The author seems to have written Chapter 17 of "Beautiful Code" according to:

https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=9487.msg71057#msg71057

[2] Of course we can learn from documentation, diagrams, and other things too, but I'd like to consider the situation where I at least have access to some (preferably all) source code.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / FARR plugin: PuTTY (preliminary discussion)
« on: January 09, 2009, 08:35 AM »
I'm considering a PuTTY plugin.  I have some code that seems to work for various definitions of "PuTTY".

I don't understand why there are so many flavors of PuTTY.  Below is a summary of what I've learned so far about the various flavors.  If you happen to notice any of it is incorrect or something relevant is omitted, I would appreciate being informed.

   PuTTY (the original)
     http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
     * registry-based sessions
       * putty.exe -load "session name"
       * HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SimonTatham\PuTTY\Sessions

   KiTTY
     http://kitty.9bis.com/
     * registry-based sessions
       * kitty.exe -load "session name"
       * HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\9bis.com\KiTTY\Sessions

   KiTTY Portable
     http://kitty.9bis.com/
     * file-based sessions
       * kitty_portable.exe -load "session name"
       * <exe-folder>/Sessions/<encodeURIComponent(session-name)>

   PuTTY Portable
     http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/putty_portable
     * registry-based sessions
       * putty.exe -load "session name"
       * HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SimonTatham\PuTTY\Sessions

   portaPuTTY
     http://code.google.com/p/portaputty/
     * file-based sessions
       * putty.exe -load "session name"
       * <exe-folder>/.putty/sessions/<encodeURIComponent(session-name)>

   PuTTY Tray
     http://www.xs4all.nl/~whaa/putty/
     * file-based sessions
       * putty.exe -loadfile "session name"
       * putty.exe -file "session name"
       * <exe-folder>/sessions/<encodeURIComponent(session-name)>
     * registry-based sessions
       * putty.exe -load "session name"
       * HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SimonTatham\PuTTY\Sessions

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Living Room / BBS: The Documentary
« on: January 09, 2009, 07:26 AM »
I imagine some folks here have already seen BBS: The Documentary, but may be there are some folks who missed it and would be interested ;)

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/BBS_Documentary

bbsdoc.jpg

(On a tangential note, I noticed the creator is working on another interesting-sounding documentary about text adventures a.k.a. interactive fiction: http://getlamp.com/)

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