Articles by Alan Briolat

  1. Using Nautilus in Xubuntu 11.10

    Like many people, I've found the new things in the Linux desktop environment world - i.e. GNOME 3 and Unity - to be more of a hindrance than a help. For this reason I've switched to Xubuntu, which allows me to stick to my previous multi-window multi-desktop multi-monitor workflow ...

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  2. VDB 0.1.0 (alpha) Released

    Recently I've been working on a program that will let me do a full-text search of my 1500-file digital video library. The result is something I've unimaginatively called "VDB", short for "Video Database".

    This release doesn't do much; you can add your library of video files, and ...

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  3. When Dynamic Typing Goes Wrong

    Yesterday I found out first-hand how using a dynamically typed language can get you into trouble in unexpected ways whilst writing unit tests for CSF (my PHP framework).

    Take a look at this code---what do you think it should do?

    $foo = 'bar';
    var_dump(isset($foo['xyz']));
    var_dump($foo['xyz']);
    

    Most ...

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  4. Why .NET Won't Beat Java (Yet)

    It's been no real secret that the .NET CLR (Common Language Runtime) has been Microsoft's answer to Java. Garbage collection, bytecode compilation, large set of core libraries, it's all there. But there is a problem that I've encountered recently: distribution size and install base.

    A fairly ...

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