Developing Programmers .com

Ever used a floating point number? Most of us use them pretty casually, but they have some important limitations that professional programmers should be conscious of when they choose to use them. Ridiculous Fish have a most wonderful article about how floats are stored and what numbers they can and can’t represent. Go check it out!

Downtime

It looks like my web host, trouble.net.au, is physically moving their computers to a new building this week. So there might be some down time but don’t give up, I’ll be back and I have another interview with Jamie Wodetzki teed up, this time about copyright law and mixing open source and commercial software. So make sure you catch the major article later this week.