Browsing all posts from December, 2008.

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Room for both Open and Closed Source?

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008

Stuart Cohen writes that the Open Source Model is Broken, and I think a bigger point perhaps needs to be highlighted. Open source software can be great, it can have a wonderful function and it can make life better. But not everything needs to be or should be open source. I read a Wikipedia article [...]

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Avoiding Loose Typing Dangers

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

Sometimes I like terse code. if( state ){} is clear. However this syntax can cause a lot of grief in loose typed languages, and while you can avoid some cases by typing vars, you can still get yourself into trouble (as a note: I find strict mode a pain in ActionScript). if( GetState() ){} may [...]