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COBOL – The New Age Programming Language
COBOL – The New Age Programming Language
Found this funny article through a tweet by Matz.
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Programming in Lua
Programming in Lua, Second Edition
I came across Lua recently on my latest FRITZ!Box, where they use it as a compact and tiny scripting language.
Now I decided to make use of my Lua competence and prepare a Lua course as well.
The slides are already created. Where are the participants? Why do you hesitate? Speak up! Where in this world do you want me to present this course on Lua?
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a SnowLeopard keyboard in “multi-country mode” showing the German tricolor
The only period of time, that the German tricolor could ever, ever got seen on me was during my military service. I think, that’s more than enough.
But … SnowLeopard uses the national flags to indicate, in which country mode the keyboard currently is. Now for a Germany/German keyboard that is the German tricolor.
Now my question: can I replace that with something … different?
Alright, currently I am testing the Austrian keyboard layout, next one will be Swiss German. But the latter still shows a tiny German tricolor. Poor Swiss!!!!!
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O’Reilly Media’s “HTML5: Up and Running” is out – are you ready for HTML5?
HTML5: Up and Running – O’Reilly Media
This book appeared in their Up and Running series, which is not to be confused with their other series The Definitive Guide.
Here is the text from the back page:
If you don’t know about the new features available in HTML5, now’s the time to find out. This book provides practical information about how and why the latest version of this markup language will significantly change the way you develop for the Web.
HTML5 is still evolving, yet browsers such as Safari, Mozilla, Opera, and Chrome already support many of its features — and mobile browsers are even farther ahead. HTML5: Up & Running carefully guides you though the important changes in this version with lots of hands-on examples, including markup, graphics, and screenshots. You’ll learn how to use HTML5 markup to add video, offline capabilities, and more — and you’ll be able to put that functionality to work right away.
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Learn new semantic elements, such as
, , and - Meet Canvas, a 2D drawing surface you can program with JavaScript<
- Embed video in your web pages without third-party plugins>
- Use Geolocation to let web application visitors share their physical location<
- Take advantage of local storage capacity that goes way beyond cookies
- Build offline web applications that work after network access is disconnected
- Learn about several new input types for web forms
- Create your own custom vocabularies in HTML5 with microdata
Berlinians eager for a presentation can leave a comment here suggesting days, times, and locations. As soon as the figure is on a serious level, I am instantly going to set up a Doodle Poll, promised!I think, I can promise a couple of free copies of the book sponsored by O’Reilly.
Who is going to join me in this effort?
Visit Aleph Soft Education !
Update / 2010-08-09:
A huge corporation in the social networking business invites me to give the presentation on this book resp. on this top at an event, that they sponsor. I am very honored. Expect an update with more details on this! -
Learn new semantic elements, such as
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on the French/English words “vengeance” and “revanche”
I was recently communicating with “somebody” on a revanche-seeking person,
and “somebody” was creating this german wordvingativ
from the Portuguese word < -
ruby and PDF
the speaker: Lukas Rieder
working for “paper c”some approaches
writing PDF
… act as flying saucer …UNIX tools
xpdf :
$ pdftotext -layout -enc UTF-8 …pdftk
$ pdftk compressed.pdf uncompress output uncompressed.pdfimagemagick
$ convert … # e.g. towards JPEGthe speaker wrapped some unix tools and called that “PdfUtils”, and released it as GEM.