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Why contributing to Open Source Projects can be valuable

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Sammy Larbi has a great blog post on the value of contributing to open source projects. He cites several famous names - people we know because they contrib…

Why tabbed browsing makes holding form state with sessions obsolete

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In the past you used to give and receive advice that keeping form state in a session was a valid way to approach the problem of forms that span several pages. It’s no longer sound advice, and it hasn’t been for a…

Stu's Javascript for Ajax Programmers

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The second talk I attended at NFJS was
Stuart Halloway ’s
JavaScript for Ajax Programmers. I had planned to attend a different session, but all the seats were full,
and Stuart’s presentation was in the large room, so…

Why Game AI Still Sucks

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Dave Mark raises some interesting questions about artificial intelligence in games over at AIGameDev.com . First, he explains that although we’re seeing more and better AI in games, a common complaint heard from gamers…

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OT: I'm getting married today

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As you may have noticed, I try to stay on topic here and keep the announcements and meta-blogging to a minimum. However, every once in a while I think it’s OK to break that rule, and today is one of those days. And hey,…

How do you design your algorithms?

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The latest Ruby Quiz asks us to
find the maximum contiguous subarray, given an array .
This ties in nicely to something I’ve been wanting to ask for a while: how do you design your algorithms?
What heuristics do you…