Another Day In The Code Mines

Pictems is now available! Hey, so my first iPhone application is currently available on the iPhone App Store. It's been a tremendous amo...

The problem with software that works as if "by magic" is that when it's broken, you're practically helpless. I just ran in...

Five days, 21 sessions (not including the keynote), and 12 rides on Caltrain up to San Francisco and back. My head is spinning, but my first...

I'm really excited to be going to WWDC this year, for the first time as an attendee. WWDC is Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference,...

If you live in Silicon Valley, you've probably at least heard of the Computer History Museum . If you're like me, you probably even ...

I've written before about how the shared memory multi-threaded model for concurrent processing is an evolutionary dead-end, and how we...

This is just sick and wrong: The Friends List Of The Ring edit 2008/05/06: The original link is gone. Here's a YouTube link.

"Silicon compound superconducts at room temperature" Unfortunately this turns out to be bad reporting...

Am I mis-remembering, or did Internet Explorer formerly produce more helpful error messages than this one when failing to connect to a websi...

As I mentioned previously, I've been working with Lua recently. I'm really enjoying it. I'd place Lua somewhere slightly to the ...

This diagram is an adaptation of something I wrote on a co-worker's cube wall. I based this on my own experiences, so it probably reflec...

I ran into this interesting puzzle over at techInterview.org , which is a site dedicated to the kind of mental puzzles interviewers at certa...

It seems like in every job I take, I eventually end up developing an API, or a programming language, or a macro processor, or something simi...

Now that I've had a chance to play with it a bit more, a few more impressions. I've been thinking about the "but what's it ...

My first hours with the XO laptop Back when the One Laptop Per Child Foundation was running their "give one, get one" promotion, I...

There's an enormous list of programming languages up on the Wikipedia at Alphabetical List Of Programming Languages It occurred to me th...

I gave a little presentation or lecture at work last week (on pair-wise testing and higher-level test planning) and I was reminded of one of...

No updates for 6 months, then two in a day... Via a discussion on Joel On Software , I got directed to this: The C++ FQA It's a response...

You're probably using "unsigned" incorrectly, and that makes me sad. Chances are that if you write code in C (or related langu...

Last week, we got a new blender - a Blendtec Total Blender . Since Yvette started her weight loss program , we've gone through 4 blender...