First: Principles

(Thanks Lasse .) Corporate performance reviews are for the most part a waste of time. At my last job, I worked with the same set of peers ...

At the IQAA on Thursday, there was a good presentation on coding standards and reviews. I've always had a strong sense that code revie...

Wow, this is a handy little pattern library. (Thanks to Grady Booch .) I'm spending more and more time with Yahoo these days, for sto...

For a guy who has written so much good stuff on software development, I think Joel is falling behind the times. His latest post talks about...

I went to the Indianapolis .Net User Group meeting last night. They advertised Generics as the topic, and since I really didn't know a...

I wrote a while ago about how ISO can actually be used as a positive thing for a company, which I suppose most developers at the grunt leve...

When I complain about something, I do like to follow up if the problem is addressed, or corrected, or even vaguely not quite as bad as I tho...

Are you a software tester? Come to Indianapolis and join ProSolv, which will be adding 50 new jobs next year , and immediately adding a qual...

I posted here about writing a letter to the Indiana senators, Richard Lugar and Evan Bayh, about the Coburn anti-pork amendments. Finally...

Judge John Jones determined in the Dover, PA court case that Intelligent Design should not be taught as a reasonable scientific alternative ...

Things I have been doing while not blogging: Sudoku. The local paper finally started putting one in, starting with an easy one on Mondays an...

Thanks to the Panda's Thumb for referencing the Fordham State of Science report. In it, Indiana receives an A and an overall rating o...

Wocka wocka wocka. Looks like Bloomington is about to be eaten by Pac-Man.

I had my first opportunity today to try to create a web site with Visual Studio 2005. I made it about two steps before running into a brick ...

This looks like an interesting, if tiny, local software testing group. I found it through this post , from Mike Kelly , who appears to be t...

Way back when I posted about sending a note to the Bloomington newspaper about adding an RSS feed to their website. I did that again this ...

I went and read the Peter Jacobi article in the Herald-Times before writing this. He's got something of a reputation for sticking to po...

So here’s the problem statement: Write a Ruby script that will open a database, check it for accuracy, and if it is NOT accurate, send an em...

I'm starting a new blog dedicated to Hoosier Hoops. Drop by if you have an interest! Icerocket tags Basketball Hoosiers Indiana Sport...

There's a thread on the SysInternals forums concerning the Pinnacle keys I posted about , here .