High-level international consultancy BlogSisters has relocated its headquarters to Blogaria, the cosmopolitan capital of cool for the online environment and home to the University of Blogaria (motto: “Buy some junk from CafePress so we can keep the store open”).
One of the most compelling ways in which sisterhood is powerful is in the demonstration that people don’t need to play control-and-manipulation games, but can occasionally, gracefully, cooperate and support one another without trying to extract something for their efforts. That’s Blogaria at its best, and we’re counting on our BlogSisters to amplify local efforts toward cooperation and, pardon the expression, fellowship. Weve saved the best table for you, Elaine and Jeneane!
*Some, by the way, ask where to find Blogaria. Of what state is it a city or region? The correct answer, insofar as Blogarian topographers have been able to determine it, is that Blogaria is an autonomous convergence of interests, wills, energies, and ideals, to be found wherever webheads act in accordance to non-geographic allegiances. Blogaria is not to be found here or there; Blogaria is an event. . . .
DRMA: "Twenty-Five Miles" by Edwin Starr; "Heavy Metal Drummer" by Wilco; "The River Of Jordan" by Louvin Brothers; "Lounge Act" by Nirvana.
For this program, it was a bit of overkill. It's a lot of overkill, actually. There's usually no need to store integers in the Heap, unless you're making a whole lot of them. But even in this simpler form, it gives us a little bit more flexibility than we had before, in that we can create and destroy variables as we need, without having to worry about the Stack. It also demonstrates a new variable type, the pointer, which you will use extensively throughout your programming. And it is a pattern that is ubiquitous in Cocoa, so it is a pattern you will need to understand, even though Cocoa makes it much more transparent than it is here.
Posted by: Lambert at January 13, 2004 09:02 AMThe most basic duality that exists with variables is how the programmer sees them in a totally different way than the computer does. When you're typing away in Project Builder, your variables are normal words smashed together, like software titles from the 80s. You deal with them on this level, moving them around and passing them back and forth.
Posted by: Dionise at January 13, 2004 09:03 AMFor this program, it was a bit of overkill. It's a lot of overkill, actually. There's usually no need to store integers in the Heap, unless you're making a whole lot of them. But even in this simpler form, it gives us a little bit more flexibility than we had before, in that we can create and destroy variables as we need, without having to worry about the Stack. It also demonstrates a new variable type, the pointer, which you will use extensively throughout your programming. And it is a pattern that is ubiquitous in Cocoa, so it is a pattern you will need to understand, even though Cocoa makes it much more transparent than it is here.
Posted by: Jordan at January 13, 2004 09:03 AM