The Zeitgeist

I just found Xlye Scope from CulturedCode. Xyle Scope is to web page, layout and CSS what Instruments is to XCode. Wow.
I’ve been using CSSEdit for a long time and its been really useful. It lets you look at a web page, and turn on an “X-Ray” mode which [...]

Gustavo Duarte, a programmer and blogger in Colorado wrote a very provocative article recently entitled Language Dabbling Considered Harmful where he reasons on why working, professional programmers should, more or less, stick to the languages where they have been successful and not try to get involved with new languages that come around:

Learning new programming languages [...]

Tags: computer science, languages, Programming

After several “developer previews” Apple finally releases Java 1.6 yesterday.
It’s only for 64bit Intel machines machines which is kind of a bummer for PPC folks. I hope they decide to remedy that soon.
It can be found on Apple’s Software Download pages.

I just installed 10.5.2, before I started the installation, I had 12GB of memory, now I have 8GB:

My 2GB DIMMs have become 1GB DIMMs (the things listed at 2GB are Apple memory).
Oh, Noes!! DON’T WANT.
Apple — please fix!

[Update: I totally missed Ms. Stacie Somers of San Diego County, another gold-digger wanna be... Macalope covers it nicely...]

It’s interesting how Apple has become everyone’s favorite whipping boy lately. The latest salvo in the “If I sue Apple maybe I’ll get rich” war has been fired by a Florida resident named “Frederick [...]

Randall Munroe’s exceptionally wonderful strip about “Romance, Sarcasm, Math and Language”…

Lately, in preparation for any number of projects on my plate now and into 2008, I have been trying to brush up on my data visualization skillz’ and so I’ve been turning to a few books that seem to be the core of the interactive visualization movement that been dominating ‘web2.0′. (You can [...]

According to MacRumors, Apple has seeded Java6 for OS X 10.5 (Leopard).    So, it looks like the rumors of Java’s death under OS X were … uhm .. exaggerated.  

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I’ve spent a lot of my life working at financial services companies, almost all of it at so-called “money center banks” like JPMorgan and Citigroup, as well as at brokerages like BearStearns, and if there’s one thing I’ve learned about the money business is that Wall St. is about money, not sentimentality.   In other [...]

Tags: Wall St

Google is offering a US$30MM prize to any private group that successfully lands a probe on the lunar surface and returns high-resolution video imagery. Personally I think it would be great, anything that opens up space and helps expand our horizons is great… sadly, I think the minute that really starts to (pardon [...]