OddThinking

One of the trends I have been noticing is that I seem to get more of a response to geeky articles than the non-geeky ones. In keeping with that trend, here’s a geeky analysis of that trend.

I think that *case-preserving, case-insensitivity* is, almost always, the optimal behaviour. This may be somewhat controversial, so let me explain my position.

A review of the different ways that different software treats case.

A quick look at the world of upper- and lower-case

An example of an obviously poor coding style

Whatever happened to Reverse Polish Notation (RPN)? Progress! That’s what!

Here’s a little challenge for the software developers.

I have been noticing an odd phenomenon when I am in the zone…

In this article, I describe three separate issues with the handling of Sections and Headings in modern typesetting tools. I propose a dull but important change to markup languages to deal with these issues. This proposal is not particularly innovative, but just better engineered. Then I mention a new problem that I only just noticed, and propose an innovative new feature that would be way cool.

With Brainsnorkel experimenting with Writely, I thought it was about time that I evaluated Ecto as I promised a month ago. I am going to talk almost exclusively about the user-experience rather than the features of the tool. Why? Because that’s the reason I am giving it the thumbs-down after only the briefest trials. It […]