Daily Archives: July 31, 2006

Why Can’t Database Tables Index Themselves?

Why indeed?

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WriteRoom – Long Live the Console

Christian Neukirchen (A.K.A. Anarchaia) pointed out a Mac OS X app called WriteRoom (there’s a Windows twin called Dark Room). It’s a full-screen text editor with absolutely no word processing features. No bold, no italic, no paragraph formatting, just text. … Continue reading

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GOTO Considered Harmful … in English

A small pet peeve: the use of goto in written English instead of go to. Is this the legacy of BASIC?

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