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George Jempty

Fort Worth, TX

code.google.com/p/deskml

Age: 49

Learning programming from the "Basic Basic" book when in junior high school around 1975-76 has apparently paid off (though I did not touch a computer again for nearly 20 years), as I've devised an open source platform for creating desktop apps from web content: http://code.google.com/p/deskml/

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how to get the current working directory's absolute path from irb

ruby irb working-directory current-working-directory asked Dec 21 '09 at 1:23
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16 votes

Why are Tk GUI's considered ugly?

gui tk asked Dec 8 '08 at 12:45
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10 votes

What's the origin of asking interviewees to manually parse a string as an int?

javascript string integer type-conversion asked Sep 2 '10 at 10:23
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9 votes

Is this Javascript object literal key restriction strictly due to parsing?

javascript object parsing object-literal asked May 20 '10 at 11:21
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8 votes

Un-committed database transactions and auto-increment columns

java mysql hibernate transactions auto-increment asked Sep 9 '09 at 14:09
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7 votes

How to use IE7 Javascript memory leak detectors?

javascript internet-explorer memory-leaks asked Aug 11 '09 at 15:46
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7 votes

Will removing a column with a Rails migration remove indexes associated with the column

ruby-on-rails rails-migrations asked Aug 26 '11 at 12:14
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7 votes

Advantages of cat'ing file and piping to grep

linux unix command-line grep pipe asked Sep 23 '10 at 15:45
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6 votes

Is publishing/subscribing to events after UI rendering a best practice regardless of framework?

javascript events gui extjs publish-subscribe asked Nov 16 '11 at 22:04
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6 votes

What is this Bash (and/or other shell?) construct called?

linux bash shell unix stdout asked Dec 23 '11 at 13:13
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