I am writing a report for a customer in MS Word. Every now and then Word freezes and stops working. What a fun! I really hate this crappy piece of software. Arrrrg!

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MIT has changed their introductory courses from Scheme to Python.
Content-wise, the class is a mix as well. The first four weeks of C1
will be a lot like the first four weeks of 6.001, Abelson said. The
difference is that programming will be done in Python and not Scheme.
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Joel writes about an email he received from a consultant:
I didn’t understand a thing he wrote. The email contained a lot of words (“benchmarking,” “outside in,” “performance metrics,” “best practice,” “process and organization”) each of which set off a loud buzzing alarm-like sound in my head. The noise from the buzzing was so loud and [...]

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Ich hatte gestern die PIN meiner Bankomatkarte vergessen. Ich habe also dreimal mit völliger Überzeugung, die richtige Kombination einzugeben, die falschen Zahlen verwendet. Dann wurde die Karte vom Bankomaten eingezogen. Rien ne va plus.Es kommt sehr, sehr selten vor, dass ich den Code vergesse, aber eine Erkenntnis bleibt mir: wenn’s beim ersten mal eingeben nicht [...]

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Finally I managed it to release a new version of my firefox extension CopyAllUrls.
  CopyAllUrls 0.7.1 Download (for MS Windows, Linux and Mac OS X)
In this version significant changes were made. Everything is more easy and more powerful.
Make a donation if you like CopyAllUrls!
New Features

Ready for Firefox 2, tested with the lates FX2RC3 and FX1.5
Templating [...]

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Selenium gibt es auch für Plone und wird in Zope3 integriert.

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Aptana ist keine Babynahrung, sondern eine - trotz Beta (na klar!) - sehr ausgereifte IDE für Javascript, HTML, XML und CSS.  Nachdem ich das heute bei Markus gesehen hatte, musste ich es sogleich testen.
Unter Windows XP verlief die Installation recht unproblematisch, das Tool selbst ist angenehm stabil. Unter SuSE 10.1 war es dann nicht ganz [...]

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Ich teste hier gerade Performancing im Firefox 1.5 auf diesem Quills-Blog (1.5-RC3). Funktioniert sehr gut!Einziger Nachteil: Ich kann nur als Zope-Admin bloggen?

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Sometimes I need IE for testing web applications and today I found IEs 4 Linux, a great resource if you want to run IE (5, 5.5 and 6) on linux.
And besides that, it is really easy, download IEs4Linux, start ./ies4linux and after a few minutes of downloading you are there!

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Searchstatus, a useful firefox extension for search optimization, can easily help to exploit your web application when you don’t take security serious. Here’s why.

Some Background

Before Christmas I was working on some invites for a private beta of one of our ajax based wiki apps. And because I was very late getting things done, I wrote [...]

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