Archive for the 'Software' Category

May 28 2008

Just in from the Future: Delicious Library 2.0!!!

Published by David HM Spector under OS X, Software

[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 [...]

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Oct 10 2007

Disney to Kids with Macs: DROP DEAD!

Published by David HM Spector under Apple, Internet, Kids, Software

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 [...]

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Aug 31 2007

Subversion Hell

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 [...]

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Aug 30 2007

Porting over old posts to the new blog

Published by David HM Spector under Software

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….

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May 16 2007

“I have a list of 235 patents…”

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 [...]

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Mar 02 2007

Coding, coding, coding…

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, [...]

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Dec 09 2006

Has software development jumped the shark?

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 [...]

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