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My best investment so far
I’ve been using Jon’s excellent tools, ViEmu for Visual Studio, Outlook, Word, and Sql Server Management Studio for close to a year now. They make the default editor in those tools behaves like VI, with regular expression support. I bought the Enterprise Pack. Highly, highly recommended. Of course you need to know VI first. I…
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Drawing Swedish flag with Logo
After our last experiment, we drew a Swedish flag with Logo. Major code improvement: 1. Introduction of variable for flag size; 2. Using the direction keyword instead of turnright and turnleft to make it less ambiguous to the code reader. Here is the final product: Here is the code for it. # Begin logo code…
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Logo programming fun
My son had the idea, and I just implemented it in Logo. It’s been really fun. We learned typing, math, geometry, and all that together without even knowing it. We did it on Ubuntu with KTurtle. By the way, it looks KTurtle’s Logo implementation is not consistent with documentations found in other sites. The next…
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In memory of Ken Henderson
Ken Henderson’s death really shocked me. I didn’t feel like working for a few days after I learned the news. I met Ken twice. The first time was when I was at PASS (SQL Server conference) in Grapevine, Texas. Then I just admired him from afar. We may have traded pleasantries. I remember attending Microsoft…
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Tintin, Tom Sawyer, Robinson Crusoe, Harry Potter, Mowgli, and a shout-out
One drawback of self employment is that I don’t have time for blogging nowadays. When I had a full time job dutifully serving my corporate master, I had time to surf the web, slack off, and write a post or two. Ever since I started on my own, my blog production has dropped. I still…