Tag Archives: Equality

Ada: We salute you – The worlds First Programmer

This article was cross-posted on ria.creuna.com. Hear ye; Codesmiths and Script Artisans. Nay; Hear ye all who labour with keyboard and mouse, for you owe a debt to the singular person we commemorate today. Ahem. On this day, the 10th of december, a shockingly large number of years ago the First Programmer was born. If [...]

Prattle of the Pettiest

Original photo by Flickr user alexerde. Bastardized thoroughly by yours truly. These two posts by Keith Peters do a marvelous job at summarising an age-old frustration that most ActionScript developers and I’m certain developers in many other languages, have either faced or actively promulgated.Namely the attitude that while my language is certainly a robust and [...]

Google shows support for gay marriage

This is possibly the most uplifting news I’ve heard from a tech-company in a long while. Google has openly stated in a blog post that they oppose a certain proposition that would eliminate the right of same-sex couples to marry. Snipped: it is the chilling and discriminatory effect of the proposition on many of our [...]