Learn Functional Programming

After completing a ridiculous amount of research over the past couple of month, I presented on functional programming early last week. Even though I’ve playing with F# quite a bit lately, I didn’t focus on any specific functional or multi-paradigm language. Instead my presentation included an overview of functional programming in general.
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Backup & Restore Strategy

You never know when “life” will happen-loss, theft, damage, infection, etc-and I’ve been unprepared too many times. So I’ve created a complete backup & restore strategy, which has reduced my downtime from as much as a week, to under a day. I figured someone somewhere out there might find this useful.

Backups

If you don’t have backups, MAKE THEM NOW. Below are some tools and tips for simplifying backups and gathering all the necessary information to restore your system before you need it.

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Smartphone Screens – Another Wireless Variable

This is a good item to read as a follow-up on the Wireless Application Market article. Regardless of what platform you’ve decided to develop for, UI design is going to be another issue for you. Not unlike web development, page size is one of the the first areas you should address. Specifically, what is the minimum screen width you should support?
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Wireless Application Market

Thinking of building a wireless application?

Great! Just head over to Apple and download the iPhone SDK, or maybe head over to Blackberry and look into their SDK, or check out Microsoft, or Java, or Android… That will satisfy everyone right? Unfortunately, not even close. Before you even look at platforms, you have to make the decision that can potentially eliminate more potential users from your user base (Mac vs. PC anyone)?
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