Tag: programming

  • Rob Kolstad is an Asshole

    This month’s Wired has a great article (not online yet, so no link) by Jason Fagone about the International Olympiad in Informatics where high school students from all over the world compete to solve problems through software. It’s fiercely competitive and has its own sub culture of super stars, namely Gennady Korotkevich of Belarus, who…

  • Top Ten Programming Languages

    I’m currently learning Ruby on Rails, and since Ruby is a new language for me I got to thinking what my favorite programming languages are… 10.? Assembly 9.? ASP / vbscript 8.? JavaScript 7.? Visual Basic 6.? C 5.? C++ 4.? SQL 3.? PHP 2.? Java 1.? perl Honestly, the more I program in any…

  • Javascript needs…

    I’m writing some JavaScript at the moment and you know what it needs? 1. Multiline strings 2. An inline concatenation operator such as += Anything else?