Computing and Its People

The following is a collection of tutorials and expositions on computing technology, info tech industry, and its culture.

Computer Languages

Technical expositions:

• What are OOP's Jargons and Complexities?
• The Concepts and Confusions of Algebraic and Fully Functional Notations
• The Hack of bitmask used as Predicate Parameters
• What is Expressiveness in a computer language?
• What Is Closure In A Programing Language
• Jargons of Info Tech Industry
• The Term Curring In Computer Science

Non technical essays and commentaries:

• What Languages to Hate
• the Measure of a Language
• Programing Languages Popularity Trend
• Computer Language Websites Popularity
• The Lambda Logo Tour
• Lisp Needs A Logo

Java Tutorial

JavaScript & DHTML Tutorial

Essays:

• What are Events in GUI programing?

Python and Perl Tutorial

Essays:

• Lambda in Python 3000
• On Python's Documentation
• Notes on rewriting the Python documentation
• How to write a (computer language) Tutorial
• Why OpenSource Documentation is of Low Quality
• Examples of Quality Documentation

Emacs Tutorial and Elisp Tutorial

Essays:

• Modernization of Emacs
• How To Avoid The Emacs Pinky Problem
• A Text Editor Feature: Syntax Tree Walking
• Tabs versus Spaces in Source Code
• A Review of Microsoft Ergonomic Keyboards

Perl

Essays:

• Larry Wall and Cults
• Laziness, Perl, Larry Wall
• Perl's raison d'être
• on Theory vs Practice
• on Theory vs Practice II
• Unixers, RFC, and Perl

The Unix Pestilence (commentary and logo tour)

• Unix Command Line Tools Tips
• ImageMagick Tutorial
• Mac OS X Command Line Tools Tips

Essays:

• The Nature of the “Unix Philosophy”
• Unix and Literary Correlation
• The Harm of hard-wrapping Lines
• Unix, RFC, and Line Truncation
• Tabs versus Spaces in Source Code
• Unix's mbox format
• Plain-Text Email Fetish
• The Journey of a Foreign Character thru Internet
• “Buffer Overflow” Security Problems by Henry Baker.

IT Industry

• Responsible Software Licensing
• Responsible Software License and Free Software Foundation
• The Bug-Reporting Attitude
• The State of Affairs of DVD Rippers!

IT Programers

• on Microsoft Hatred
• Microsoft Hatred faq
• Microsoft Hatred & God
• on the survival strategies of Larry Wall vs Richard Stallman
• Communism, American, and OpenSource
• OpenSource
• The Condition of Industrial Programers

Software Engineering

• IT Predicament
• Why Software Suck
• Why Change When It Ain't Broken
• Book Review: Patterns of Software

Internet Sociology

• The Demise of orkut.com
• a cross-cultural look of sexual anthropology thru a online social network
• Sexual Mores Thru Yahoo
• Keywords and Taxonomy
• The Landscape of Instant Messaging and the Mac

Encyclopedia

• the encyclopedic internet
• Wikipedia Morons
• Encyclopedia, My Experiences
• the Engine of Wikipedia

Netiquette Anthropology

• Killfile Considered Harmful
• Philosophies of Netiquette
• The Fetish for Plain Text emails
• Old School Netiquette
• a Troll's Anthology
• A Troll's Confection
• On Ignoring Trolls
• Newsgroup Accountability
• Tech Geekers versus the Spammers

Misc, Unsorted or Unpolished Essays

• ZIP, OpenSource, Mother-Son Relationship
• Is Programing Art or Science
• On Appreciation
• comp.lang.lisp fight on The Meaning of Closure
• Is Mac OS X Unix
• MYSQL
• On Tail Recursion
• What Is Math
• What Scientific
• What Determines a Computer Language's Popularity?
• Unix, Security, and FTP

• Unicode Characters Example
• Notes on Database Joins (computing technology)
• Tree Functions in Perl, Python, Java
• Digital Communication Bandwidth

• Graphics Programing Pains
• Pattern Matching vs Pattern Specification
• Web-browsers 2003 pro and con

• Why Learn Lisp When There Are Perl And Python (essay; computer language)
• Distributed RCS, Darcs, and Math Sacrilege
• What is a Tech Geeker

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