Garmin for motorcycles – Zumo 550 reviews

Have you ever tried to choose the best color scheme in VIM ? Typing those “:colorscheme …” and looking at your code (sometimes with disgust;) ). Those days are over, now there is a webpage with VIM color schemes html “screenshots” (for C, HTML, Java, LaTeX and Perl). If you didn’t know this VIM command you should have a look at Hacking Vim: A Cookbook to get the Most out of the Latest Vim Editor which presents many commands needed in “real life” ;).

If you want to have a quick look at e.g. java go here. There are literally hundreds of schemes, I didn’t people made so many. This page may load slowly, but after that, you can choose whatever scheme you like and download it.

And BTW, this page is in pure HTML with each scheme in an IFRAME, so you can increase and decrease the font size. Have fun !

I bought this book only because it was mentioned on the page of “The Pragmatic Programmer” at amazon as a recommendation. And I must say I was really impressed with the knowledge that is contained in it.

Whole book contains very useful tips for every programmer, not only a beginner but probably many experts will find it useful.
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TomTom ONE XL-S – a wide screen GPS

Just a short notice, found it while browsing the digg for programming stories.
There is a proposition to include closures in Java (probably 7.0), here is a pdf file with the proposition.

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Pseudocode interesting technique that I found in Code Complete, Second Edition by Steve McConnell.

PPP is a way of developing routines by writing pseudocode for them in the first place (not a new topic) and after that, making the pseudocode a comment in the routine (functions, procedure, method or whatever your language calls them). After comments are in the empty routine, the last thing to do is write the code below appropriate comment lines.

I know it isn’t the clearest explanation, here look below at the example that I prepared.
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