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Can you ever truly separate markup and content? What if you want emphasize a word in your content? You would need some sort of syntax to highlight the word. What if your content required a table, that it only made sense when contained in columns and rows?
This exists for CMS applications as well. The theory is that you only store "content" in the database, and "style" in the presentation. For basic content that works, but falls apart with real world usage.
What You Can't See You Can't Get
I suppose What You See Is What You Get has its place, but as an OCD addled programmer, I have a problem with WYSIWYG as a one size fits all solution. Whether it's invisible white space, or invisible formatting tags, it's been my experience that forcing people to work with invisible things they ...
You should copyright the term "Hot Swappable Software" to describe your goal. If we can figure out how to hot swap a hard drive running a mission critical server, we should be able to do the same with software. My guess is that this would need to be an OS feature because you have would have to swap while it is in RAM. Although you could use the application pool concept that IIS uses, and have the next version ready to load and set the application pool to recycle after X number of minutes.
The Infinite Version
One of the things I like most about Google's Chrome web browser is how often it is updated. But now that Chrome has rocketed through eleven versions in two and a half years, the thrill of seeing that version number increment has largely worn off. It seems they've picked off all the low hanging ...
Just occurred to me that Billy and I made the same mistake the for statement should be:
for (int i = 1; i <= 100; i++)
we were missing the 100th display.
The Non-Programming Programmer
I find it difficult to believe, but the reports keep pouring in via Twitter and email: many candidates who show up for programming job interviews can't program. At all. Consider this recent email from Mike Lin: The article Why Can't Programmers... Program? changed the way I did interviews. I ...
Or a method in a C# Console App:
private static void FizzBuzzTest()
{
for (int i = 1; i < 100; i++)
{
if ((i % 3 == 0) && (i % 5 == 0)) Console.WriteLine("FizzBuzz");
else if (i % 3 == 0) Console.WriteLine("Fizz");
else if (i % 5 == 0) Console.WriteLine("Buzz");
else Console.WriteLine(i.ToString());
}
}
I went with 4 conditions instead of 3 for easier for debugging.
The Non-Programming Programmer
I find it difficult to believe, but the reports keep pouring in via Twitter and email: many candidates who show up for programming job interviews can't program. At all. Consider this recent email from Mike Lin: The article Why Can't Programmers... Program? changed the way I did interviews. I ...
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