Tagged with "programming"
Free as in Beer
There is this colloquialism, “Free as in beer” in the open source software development community which I’d never really understood. I wanted to know where these people lived and why they were giving away beer. Then I found the beer-ware license (find another form of the beer-ware license) and things began to make more sense. I’m not sure if this is actually where the term came from but I’m going to go with it.
QuickTip: Coda’s Open Quickly
One of the oft touted features of TextMate is it’s ability to quickly open any file in the project. I’m a semi-regular TextMate user and I depend on this feature so much I’ve installed several plugins which replicate some of this functionality in Vim (or MacVim) which is my primary editor. Every once in a I use Coda to edit a site and I just discovered the Open Quickly command it includes. The shortcut to it is ^Q (Control-Q) which is a pretty different but this feature is so useful I’m sure I’ll be able to remember it.
If you post an advert for a Haskell developer you will get 20 applicants. All of those people will be the kind of developer who learns new programming languages to improve their own abilities and stretch themselves, because nobody yet learns Haskell just to get a job.
If you post an advert for a Java developer you will get 200 applicants. Most of them will be the kind of developer who learned Java because there are lots of Java jobs out there, and as long as they know enough to hold down a job then they see no reason to learn anything.
