A lot of lovely people have said complimentary things about Josiah since they met him at BloggerCon (some who only heard others talk about their impressions of him), and this morning our friend Halley linked to his blog with kind words of praise. That inspired Frank to go over and check SiBlog out, and he seconded Halley’s affirmation; then that jogged his memory, and he posted pictures of Si and me back at BloggerCon. They’re fine photos (allowing, in my case, for conventional wisdom about silk purses and sow’s ears), and I’m especially pleased at the picture of Si looking over at the screen of my TiBook (taken the first day of the conference). Thanks, Frank, for the images and for your encouraging words about Josiah — and thanks likewise to all who have been praising him. He’s a great guy, and it makes me glow with parental pride to hera that others think so, too.
Posted by AKMA at October 27, 2003 01:52 PM | TrackBackYou're welcome, AKMA. Josiah's a lucky kid to have a parents like you and Margaret. You're lucky parents to have a kid like Si.
Frank
I'm guessing you inadvertantly subsituted the greek goddess for "hear."
Sorry ~ type-proofer's reflex.
Posted by: Pascale Soleil at October 27, 2003 03:34 PMHe is a very nice young man -- who needs to email his webhost about his site. Ahem. Hint. hint.
Posted by: Shelley at October 27, 2003 03:39 PMEarlier I mentioned that variables can live in two different places. We're going to examine these two places one at a time, and we're going to start on the more familiar ground, which is called the Stack. Understanding the stack helps us understand the way programs run, and also helps us understand scope a little better.
Posted by: Howell at January 13, 2004 09:30 AMWhen Batman went home at the end of a night spent fighting crime, he put on a suit and tie and became Bruce Wayne. When Clark Kent saw a news story getting too hot, a phone booth hid his change into Superman. When you're programming, all the variables you juggle around are doing similar tricks as they present one face to you and a totally different one to the machine.
Posted by: Rook at January 13, 2004 09:30 AMOur next line looks familiar, except it starts with an asterisk. Again, we're using the star operator, and noting that this variable we're working with is a pointer. If we didn't, the computer would try to put the results of the right hand side of this statement (which evaluates to 6) into the pointer, overriding the value we need in the pointer, which is an address. This way, the computer knows to put the data not in the pointer, but into the place the pointer points to, which is in the Heap. So after this line, our int is living happily in the Heap, storing a value of 6, and our pointer tells us where that data is living.
Posted by: Noe at January 13, 2004 09:30 AM