First: Principles

Yeah, well, I have a firm policy of only reviewing books that have been out for years. Plus, I was just curious to fiddle around with the Te...

Took the little one to soccer camp today. He'll be doing an hour a day for the whole week. They've apparently signed some British ...

Since I'm changing jobs, I'm taking last week and next off. We went to Chicago for four days last week; very disappointed in Amtrak...

After 4 1/2 years, it's time for me to leave Interactive Intelligence . It's still a great company to work for, but I'm ready t...

Last year at this time I mentioned to Mr. Pratchett that I was ready for another of his youth books. It took him until now to deliver; at ...

Doug Jonstone comments on blurbs . (link from the idiosyncratic mind .) I'm intrigued by the correspondences between old-fashioned marke...

The Next Programming Paradigm ? I suppose it could be. Personally I'm not even completely comfortable with Test Driven Development ye...

Getting Vacation Bible School organized has been taking all my time this week - when I haven't been doing that I've been stress-read...

Hazygrin links to Joel saying he agrees that you should start learning programming at a level as close to the metal as possible, i.e., C. ...

I bought this first-of-the-series based on a newspaper review of the last. I'm a big fan of Elizabeth Peters' Amelia Peabody novel...

A lot of programmers still believe in procedural programming even if they use an object-oriented language like C++ or C#. When you eliminate...

Hey, look what I found! Had no idea this group existed. Wonder if any of them blog?

Someone left a comment on my OurMedia post suggesting that I check out SmugMug . It seems like a nice enough site, but I wouldn't use ...

We drove from Bloomington to Penn State this weekend. I took Friday off work and drove two hours to my dad's house, piled into his van ...

Mike Stall comments on how not to organize your mail . I recently read David Allen's Getting Things Done , after reading a recommendat...

If you use it correctly, ISO 9000 can be a positive thing for your software company. Here's the secret: Observe the procedure, don...

This looks to be a really interesting project. They claim that they will archive your digital media forever, basically. Sounds nice, but I ...

* Avoid duplicate code. Anywhere there is duplicate code there is the potential for bugs. Code must always be changed, and anytime you lea...

Quote from this article in ComputerWorld: "Another recent variant, Sober.M, which surfaced back in April, deliberately used incorrect ...

Went to the local .Net users group meeting tonight. They showed off some of the new features of VS 2005, including refactoring and unit tes...