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Thursday, February 26. 2009

What Do *YOU* Want to Read?

Let’s be honest – there aren’t many of you reading this, and there’s just not that much of me to go around, so if you read blog.joeysmith.com, I’d like to hear from you regarding what sort of topics I should write about. Here are some ideas, but feel free to submit your own:

  • Information Visualization – I have at least a half-dozen articles on the subject laying around in various states of (in-)completion.
  • Parsing Expression Grammars – how to stop using regular expressions and use a parser instead
  • PHP WTFs, tricks and anecdotes – a decade of participation in FreeNode’s ##PHP channel has given me some great material in the “WTF” category :-)
  • Data Structures and their Algorithms – this would probably consist of discussing a particular data structure, showing an implementation in a couple of different languages (Maybe “JS, PHP, Python…???”)
  • Book reviews
Posted by TML in Meta at 14:19 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0)

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I’m a bit intrigured by the 2nd and 3rd options in your list (Parsing, PHP)

#1 Sideshow on 2009-02-26 16:10 (Reply)

2, 3, 4

#2 The Mad Giggler on 2009-02-26 16:30 (Reply)

I don’t really use Information Visualization in my work, so even though I would be interested in reading what you have to say, I probably wouldn’t use anything that you wrote about.

There are libraries supporting Parsing Expression Grammars in most of the languages that I commonly use, so if you can explain them in a way that makes it so that they actually make sense (articles that I’ve read about them don’t make much sense), I would love to learn about them.

I don’t work with PHP much, but I always enjoy good WTF’s so I’d like to see some of those :-)

Data Structures and Algorithms are a weak point in my programming knowledge. I’d like to see a lot about these, including some discussion about when different structures/algorithms are useful.

I’m not too worried about book reviews.

#3 Johnny Elbows on 2009-02-27 14:22 (Reply)

1,3,4 for me

#4 Remi Woler (Homepage) on 2009-03-01 09:57 (Reply)

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