Simon Willison’s Weblog

22nd January 2009 - Link Blog

Learning to Think Like A Programmer. Outstanding advice aimed mainly at journalists, but important to anyone who collects information for a living and might want it to be automatically processed at some point in the future.

Posted 22nd January 2009 at 6:06 pm

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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 22nd January 2009.

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