Differences between TypeScript and Dart
What is the motivation behind TypeScript?
both on programmers.se.com
Thoughts on TypeScript – Link List
November 9, 2012Rover Code
August 8, 2012If you were ever curious about the software driving the Mars rovers, I came across a good question on Programmers today.
The JPL LaRS lab provides a couple of documents on coding standards and monitoring, and NODIS has a document on Software Engineering Requirements. The Workshops on Spacecraft Flight Software also offers a couple of slideshow presentations.
I find this topic very interesting (how would you debug a piece of code that is executing on a different planet?), but unfortunately there are not that many related questions (and answers!) on Programmers.
What about the Soviet space program?
Open Data
December 9, 2011When I developed my YuJisho online dictionary web application, I was looking for freely available fonts and dictionary data related to CJK languages.
For my dbscript database schema management application, I tried to find as many database schema samples as possible to test the application against.
There is a lot of data (raw, processed and visualized) available on the Internet, but occasionally it is hard to find. This raised the idea of providing a collection of references to free data sets on the web like the Guardian Data Store, and I was thinking about a platform to provide such links.
Now news is out that data.gov plan to release their platform as open source software (GitHub), but the code is still labeled as alpha. (data.gov HTML says it is based on Socrata, which also provides lots of links to open data).
Let me know what’s your experience with OpenData, or similar platforms.
TSQL String Functions
September 7, 2010While searching for appropriate string comparison functions in TSQL, I came across these pages implementing a couple of
string functions: Capitalize, Center, Count Substring in String, EndsWith, ExpandTabs, IsAlnum, IsAlpha,
IsDigit, IsLower, IsTitle, IsSpace, LJust, LStrip, RFind, RJust, RStrip, Strip, SwapCase, Title, Zfill
and string tuple functions: Split, SplitLines, Within, EndsWith, StartsWith, Contains, Join, Parts, Partition, RPartition
See here for more TSQL articles by the authors.
CSS Link List
December 29, 2009In a web application with its custom CSS that also defined hyperlinks, Internet Explorer would render disabled hyperlinks greyed-out, whereas Firefox showed them as normal text.
Tracking down this different behavior, I found that you can define CSS styles not only by class and tag, but also by attributes using the [attribute] notation:
*[disabled], a[disabled]:hover, a[disabled]:visited { color:gray; }
If you are looking for CSS definitions for fixed headers, footers and sidebars, take a look at these sample CSS. I’m thinking about including them in the next version of dbscript.
Link List: SQL Server and Collations
December 24, 2009Recent posts covered collation support and Unicode in SQL Server.
Just a couple of links with more information on this topic:
- Qingsong Yao’s blog Collation, DateTime, SParse Column and XML
- especially the article on Unicode References
- Michael Kaplan’s Sorting it all Out
- his articles on SQL Server and Collations