CSS-discuss Mailing List

I was at first just going to mention this to Jason, but I figured that maybe some other people may be interested as well. Anyhow, I’ve recently discovered an excellent CSS mailing list — CSS-discuss. It’s administered in part by Eric Meyer, which gives a hint as to the caliber of the list.

I’ve only been subscribed for the past week or so, but I’ve found the list to be very helpful. And, even if I’m not asking the questions, I find that answering CSS questions of others allows also me to keep my skills sharp.

13 Ways to Loathe VB

Via this Register article is Thirteen Ways to Loathe VB from Dr Dobb’s Journal. I was never much a fan of Visual Basic (primarily because it’s one of the few languages to run on only one operating system) but this article gives me even more reasons not to like VB ;).

3. Calling functions and accessing arrays. In most languages you can distinguish between a call to function F with parameter 3 and a reference to array F index 3 because one is written F(3) and the other F[3]. In Visual Basic they are both written F(3). Yes. […]