June 2006
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Here are the articles that were published in June 2006.
Replying to blog post discussing Procedural Thinking
published: Tue, 27-Jun-2006
I was browsing through my website logs this evening and noticed that I'd had a
bunch of hits from a blog at
http://linamishima.livejournal.com all
hitting this article of mine on procedural programming.
In it, Michelle, the owner of the blog, was pondering that my article was
over-reaching because, in the end, all OOP code gets compiled and executed
on a "procedural" execution machine, be it machine code on a real CPU or some
kind of interpreter.
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Review of two Design Patterns books
published: Tue, 27-Jun-2006
I've just finished a couple of Design Pattern-related books, both of which are
good in their respective and very different ways. The first is
Holub
on Patterns by Allen Holub, and the second
Head
First Design Patterns by Eric & Elisabeth Freeman.
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Nokia 6682 multimedia phone
published: Mon, 26-Jun-2006
A couple of weeks ago I was at TechEd in Boston, as part of the
Developer Express team there. We had a
great conference, showing off our products to great acclaim, etc, but speaking
personally it sucked: I lost my Nokia cell phone on the Monday (it was in my
pocket when we left the hotel in the taxi, but must have slipped out during the
ride). After trying to call it pretty much continually for a good couple of
hours, hoping someone would hear it ringing, I gave up and suspended the
service (I'd activated international dialling on it for starters: didn't want
that to get in the hands of some nefarious phone fence). Last Saturday, I went
to buy myself a replacement, a
Nokia 6682. Wow, what a lovely
phone.
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