Chunky!

Eduardo León

I am just learning HTML, and I have been programming since 11 years ago. So I have been a programmer who doesn't know HTML for quite a long time.

Eduardo León

Personally, I didn't find it frustrating. I got addicted almost instantaneously.

Eduardo León

Once you formally understand data types, memory addresses and l-values, getting pointers should not be that difficult. A pointer is a data type whose admissible values are memory addresses, and whose operations are referencing (input: an l-value, output: the l-value's memory address) and dereferencing (input: a memory address, output: whatever data is in that memory address as an l-value, exception thrown if the original memory address is null). Once you formally understand pointers, getting references is very easy: A reference is a pseudo-data type that is implemented a hidden non-null pointer. When you declare a reference, it must be passed an l-value, which will be referenced. As we have already seen, the referencing operation yields a memory address, which will be used to initialize the hidden pointer (hence, the pointer will be non-null). When you use an already declared reference, the hidden pointer is automatically dereferenced, so you do not have to do it explicitly. As a result, no pointer stuff is explicitly coded. So the message is: If you want to understand pointers in C++, learn what an l-value is. --- Myself, I migrated the other way (C++ to C# 2.0), and had a hard time understanding delegates, because some idiot said that delegates were, deep inside, nothing but function pointers, and I even more stupidly believed him. (Or her. I still do not know the gender of whoever wrote that article.) But that is not true: a delegate contains two pointers: a (member) function pointer, and a this pointer, which may be null (if you pass a static method).

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Honestly, I consider good ol' HLP files superior to all subsequent help formats. As years passed, I embraced many technologies, but CHM help files and Visual Studio Help VIewer weren't among them. (Microsoft's documentation, i.e., the content, is not that bad itself, but it used to be better as well.) Why make things more complicated than they need to be? Hosting the documentation online is an interesting possibility, but that depends on whether it best fits the needs of his clients.

Eduardo León

Lolz @ "animal interactive". :laugh:

Eduardo León

Have a look at PeopleSoft. It is both a platform and an ERP (built on top of that platform, of course).

Eduardo León

I began learning PHP this January. It is an ugly language, which totally makes sense because it was never actually designed. But it helps me get things done faster than C++ (my favorite language), .NET or (God forbid!) Java, so I guess I cannot complain. IMHO, the best PHP IDE is Notepad++. Yes, it is not actually an IDE. Script languages are not suited to IDEs. And, actually, JavaScript is a nice language. I basically love its logical operators. Unless your users use Internet Explorer, in which case JavaScript is basically the spawn of the devil. --- EDIT: Oh, and also, the best way to use in-string variables is the following:

echo "{$str1} {$str2}";
echo "{$obj->member1} {$obj->member2}";

Notepad++ will even nicely highlight {$var} and {$obj->var} with a different color than the rest of the string.

Eduardo León

I say squeal.

Eduardo León

You are right. jQuery is a great life-saver for front-end Web developers. As a newbie Web developer, I could not be more thankful for jQuery.

Eduardo León

I originally read it as BJ of the day. And J meant something like what the German word "Arbeit" means, as in "Arbeit macht fries". ;P

Eduardo León

Bad joke of the day, or biker joke of the day? ;P

Eduardo León

Lolz, I never knew this:

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Eduardo León

No. Building your own special-purpose computer, redesigning each component if necessary, is actually unbeatable.

Eduardo León

Wow. Awesome. Jaw-dropping. How did they record it? Were they actually listening to each other play through the Internet or some other worldwide medium?

Eduardo León

You can always use torrents to download anything (not just movies) for free and without registration. If you meant to ask how you can download movies for free and without registration, from a site that requires either pay, registration or both, I'm afraid I don't know the answer.

Eduardo León

How many times have you had never felt better in your life in your life? Me, more than a few times, although only figuratively.

Eduardo León

For some reason, I read codse as coadse, which reminded me of goatse. Ugh. I guess my subconscious is dirtier and nastier than I would like it to be.

Eduardo León

On the other hand, there is this[^], and this[^].

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It's not as bad as it seems. Hell, if I could integrate my iMac with my bathroom, I would. Until then, I will stick to taking my MacBook with me to the bathroom instead (because my computing activities are so important that things like going to the bathroom should not stop them). In any case, the only thing that you shouldn't integrate with an iMac is your bed, as it would prevent you from getting up and going to work. Oh, shit, this actually happens to me.

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