The random utterances of David Arno

I don’t like particularly like the Free Software Foundation (FSF). My dislike of them stems from my dislike of the virus-like GPL license that they champion and their – to my mind at least – dishonest claim that the GPL is “free as in freedom”. Yet despite all this, I believe their latest campaign is one that everyone should read about and hopefully support. Read more

A fairly common feature of most object-orientated (OO) languages is the concept of globally accessible functions, which are wrapped up inside classes. In order to make them globally accessible, they’ll be defined as static methods, or whatever the syntactic equivalent is in the particular OO language in question. Read more

This post is primarily a handy way for those that attended the 2011 “try { harder }” conference to access links I showed in my “the joy of ABC” presentation at that event. Read more