Monthly Archives: August 2008

So True

Posted on August 22, 2008 by Kon

From the excellent online book Getting Real Smaller Tasks and Smaller Timelines Software developers are a special breed of optimist: when presented with a programming task, they think, “That’ll be easy! Won’t take much time at all.” So, give a … Continue reading →

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A good article on Exception Handling

Posted on August 13, 2008 by Kon

http://gen5.info/q/2008/07/31/stop-catching-exceptions/ Some principles about when to catch them and how to handle them, and some good guidelines about how to handle in different environemnts (CLI, GUI, DB, IO)

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Asus M51Sn and OS X

Posted on August 2, 2008 by Kon

Just some links related to getting OS X Leopard running on the M51Sn. Hardware still not fully covered, but there is a bios update so that the second CPU core doesn’t get aliased which prevents OS X from identifying the … Continue reading →