I absolutely love old computer books…
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Better late than never: C# 3.0 will feature map, reduce and filter, and Dare “Carnage4Life” Obasanjo explains how to rock these features. He concludes the article with “If your programming language doesn’t support lambda functions or have map/reduce/filter functions built in, you just might be a Blub Programmer who is missing out on being more productive because your programming language doesn’t support ‘esoteric’ or ‘weird’ features,” which sounds kind of weird in an article about C#, a language that could only be Blubbier if its name were BlubLang or Blub#. I suspect I’ve woken up in some upside-down parallel universe again!
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50 Python Modules for all Needs
50 Modules for all Needs is an entry at CatsWhoCode.com that lists 50 Python modules, at least some of which should prove useful to you.
I would’ve thought that they ignore everything after the first page, but ReputationDefender says that according to a Cornell University Study [PDF], most Google users ignore everything after the first three results.
c|net cites an Evans Data report: “A recent report from Evans Data shows fewer than one in 10 software developers writing applications for Windows Vista this year. Eight percent. This is perhaps made even worse by the corresponding data that shows 49 percent of developers writing applications for Windows XP.” Here’s VentureBeat’s take on this report.
The 10 WordPress Plugins Everyone Should Have listed by Webmasters by Design are: WP Google Analytics, FeedBurner FeedSmith, WP-Polls, WP-PostRatings, WP-PostViews, Sociable, Google Sitemaps Generator, CForms, Search-Highlighter and All in One SEO Pack.
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3 CSS Image Tricks
Instant Fundas has an article featuring 3 useful image CSS tricks: 1. Make it so your images can’t be saved using the “save image” option in the context menu, 2. Label images with hovering text and 3. Making a background image clickable.