TeX for the Impatient
The book TeX for the Impatient by Paul W. Abrahams, Kathryn A. Hargreaves, and Karl Berry is now available in open source form. The pdf-file is here.
Note that the book doesn’t cover LaTeX.
Archive for September 10, 2003
Upgrade Timing
Apple may be secretive, but when it comes down to it, it’s [sic] product cycles are fairly predictable. Getting into the proper rhythm can save a Mac devotee a whole lot of frustration!
SpamSieve 2.0
Today is SpamSieve’s first birthday, and I’m celebrating by releasing version 2.0. There are lots of changes in this update, but the highlights, in my opinion, are improved accuracy and speed, plug-in integration with Eudora 6 (Sponsored or Paid), and notification when new good messages are received.
Programming Language Names
Most of you have noticed that programming language names tend to fall in several different themes. Here is an attempt to catalogue them
Inside Every API
Erik Meijer (via Lambda):
Any sufficiently useful API or programming pattern will migrate into its host programming language.
Which is why languages should support macros so that programmers can grow the language themselves.
