May
28
2008
[update! Figures Apple would make me eat my words -- they just released MacOS X 10.5.3 at about 1:30PM ET. Did they do it just so Delicious Library users would get the full benefit of the graphics speedups? I hope so ]
Yay! My favorite library [...]
Tags: Delicious Library, OS X
Oct
10
2007
So, my 7 yr old daughter surfed on over to Disney this evening after finsihing her homework to play a few games. No matter what game she tried to play she got a “redirect” message (see below - talk about your poor site design), and then a notice that the game she selected (and it [...]
Tags: Apple, Disney, Games
Aug
31
2007
About 2 years ago I decided that CVS was old and decrepit enough to be just too hard to use, too brittle and I decided to get with the times and migrate all my various source archives to what all the cool kids were using, Subversion, or “svn.” And for about 2 years it’s [...]
Aug
30
2007
Oh, joy! Isn’t this fun! (hint: “no,” is the correct answer.)
Please pardon the detritus as I move old posts into the new word-press universe….
May
16
2007
How McCarthy-esque. How terribly predicable. How silly, sad, and ultimately cowardly…
1) Linus is right, Microsoft needs to put up or shut up.
2) As a shareholder (yes, some of my mutual funds hold Microsoft stock) I am appalled that Microsoft would appear to violate several SEC (to say nothing of Sarbanes-Oxley) rules which preclude [...]
Mar
02
2007
Man, I am tool old to be pulling 18 hr days all week, but here I am. Again. Coding away. What I am coding will have to remain a mystery for a little while, but what I am coding in is pretty cool. Its a really powerful Web App framework called RIFE, [...]
Dec
09
2006
Is software development all about putting together lots of other people’s code? Is there any real engineering and invention left to be done in mainstream applications?
That seems to be the debate at the world’s first Conference on Postmodern Programming recently held at the end of this past November in London sponsored by the Software [...]