16-Feb-2006

Drawing the Prophet

TrickyDicky in Zenit Translations has published an article, Drawing the Prophet, a translation of an interview with Said Zeedani, a Palestinian philosopher published in La Vanguardia Digital under the title of "La caricatura del Profeta es irrelevante" on 14-Feb-2006.

FDDI: XML template for project information

Juan Palacio in Navegapolis posts a link to the last beta specification for FDDI, a XML schema for the interchange of project information in a Feature Driven Development (FDD) project.

If my girlfriend was a C++ class

FeR in [FeR Martin] Reinventa tu vida cada día posts an email he received from a friend:

From: "Guillaume Viry@NTT.co.jp"
To: "Fer Martin@NTT.co.jp"
Subject: Re: How would you define your girlfriend?
Message:

virtual class Girlfriend {

// my girlfriend can't be public...
private:

// important for your shell script so you had better record it!
int birthday[3];

// to satisfy your scientific curiosity
int measurements[3];

// to know what you can and can't cook
float weight;

// not particularly important
int height;

// to know if you can talk about philosophy
// also to choose what “rocks” in bed
short IQ;

// changelog, always interesting to know the history
// of your programs, previous versions, known bugs...
int *nb_users;

// names of the members of the family, dog, teddy bear,
// ex-boyfriends, childhood friends, brands of perfume...
char **TeraByteBuffer;

etc...
};