Category: General | 10 Comments
I had this digg thread about this article forwarded to me about how most programmers can’t code at all. From what I gather (the main article site is down) the writer says most programmers copy and paste code, and have no idea what they are doing. That may be true. I can’t say for sure. [...]
There was some room for improvement with the last posting I did on how to setup Windows to type pīnyīn. There were four problems with the last keyboard layout installer I found (three if you are in the UK).
First, the original keyboard layout was UK based. If you were using a US keyboard, when you [...]
Category: General, Windows | 16 Comments
Well, if you think you’re going to be able to use speech recognition to code anytime soon, this video will set you straight.
This guy tries to write a simple perl script using Windows Vista’s new speech recognition. The fact the video is 10 minutes long pretty much sums it up, but you have to check [...]
Category: Chinese, Windows | 4 Comments
Before my Chinese class on Friday I was talking with my teacher about using computers in Chinese. I was telling him about the cool input methods I found for the Mac - openvanilla.org and the default Mac support for pīnyīn.
He mentioned that he would like to have that kind of support for his computer because [...]
Category: Mac | 2 Comments
I was browsing around on the goog this morning while supping on some coffee, and noticed this posting by Peter Elst. He just bought a Mac, and while he likes it, he hit a few of the differences between Mac and Windows. So far everyone I know that has made the switch (as it is [...]