First: Principles

Software Engineering Proverbs

Not that I know anything about OCR, but you wouldn't really think that machine-printed characters in a TIFF file would be all that diffi...

Looks like my new company is also very close to buying OnTime for bug tracking. I wasn't sold on it after the quick demo - it certainl...

Quality Programming - Bug Analysis Good discussion of how to prevent new bugs, based on the reporting of old ones.

My first task at my new job is learning to use the ImageGear imaging toolkit from Accusoft. I skimmed through the documentation and it look...

I wonder what happened here? If you download a tar file using Windows XP SP2 and Internet Explorer, it will change the doc type to tar.tar....

Tony Morgan has given us a great set of instructions on how not to . I have an eerie feeling he was visiting our church site when he wrote ...

Soccer camp is over. I thought Jesse had terrific ball-handling skills, but his insistence on doing his own thing really stopped him from ac...

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?