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by Peter G Provost.
Original Post: Geek Notes 2004-04-26
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Tonight I gave a guest lecture at UCCS (University
of Colorado at Colorado Springs) with David
Yack (of the Southern Colorado .NET User's
Group). It was a fun little chat about .NET and Java. They basically only teach
Java at UCCS and one of the teachers was interested in exposing them to a) an alternative
technology and b) some professional developers. All in all they were a bright if quiet
bunch. Apparently all college students want to be game programmers, and we had to
let them down nicely. :)
Cleaner,
more elegant and wrong - Raymond Chen gives us a rant about exceptions and exceptional
cases. The a number of people add their comments. All good stuff.
Wacky Warning Labels - The Michigan
Lawsuit Abuse Watch (huh?) has published their 7th annual Wacky Warning Label Contest
winners. This years winner was the warning on a bottle of drain cleaner that says:
"If you do not understand, or cannot read, all directions, cautions and warnings,
do not use this product." [via This
is Broken]
The Open Source Vulnerability Database - Not open
source software, but an open source database... like we needed another BugTraq. It
does have an RSS feed though. And
if you're interested in digging through the database, it has an XML-RPC
API. Interesting. Maybe I'll write a little app to keep track of Microsoft vs.
Non-Microsoft items. [via TheServerSide.net]
Beware
GoogleBot - Craig Andera tells an interesting story about what spiders and bots
can do if you have a link that performs a destructive action. If you write web apps,
you need to read this.
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