First: Principles

Ed Gibbs, one of my favorite bloggers, writes on the usefulness of javadoc comments . (I meant to write on Alfred Thompson's thoughts ...

Brandon McMillon writes on doing it right . (Thanks to Alfred Thompson for the link.) He doesn't touch on the agile side of software ...

Scott Karp at Publishing 2.0 writes about newspapers jacking up their blog count . I think the thing that most people are missing when it co...

Here are my comments on Joel's comments on Dave Winer's comments concerning comments. I think Dave is dead-on, but the whole issu...

Seth Godin suggests that an up-and-coming job description will be Online Community Organizer; that would be someone who can gather together...

Marc's disabled comments on his (excellent) blog . Marc, I see at least two issues with that: First, a lot of times I only have a senten...

Adam Esterline posted his solution to javascript testing. He uses WatiN to run tests, which I wasn't excited about; I was hoping for a w...

Mark Hurst's great This Is Broken website gives examples of bad user interfaces, both on the net and in the meat world. You can't ...

I had occasion to visit Hardin Ridge yesterday for the International Migratory Bird Day celebrations. They had several stations, and it was...

It's a funny thing, but I'm pretty used to being marketed to. When I needed to get a gym membership, the gyms that I went to had s...

Hey, dad? Uh-huh? How many hours are there in a day? There are 24 hours in a day, son. Oh. So how many hours are there in a night? I meant, ...

Second session at the seminar was on the new features of SQL Server 2005; since I was at the launch party in Indianapolis I didn't feel ...

I’m blogging today from a Microsoft FastTrack seminar. Perpetual Technologies in Indianapolis is putting this on in some sort of collaborat...

I've been looking around for a good way to test Javascript functions. There are at least two if not more versions of JSUnit, one here a...

I've had an interest for a long time in the science of sports team rankings, for various reasons , which was forcibly brought to mind wh...

The Oracle version of SQL has some nice keywords for returning your data in an XML format. (I suppose the other servers do too, but I'v...

I wrote earlier about creating online communities around business-to-business applications, with a vague promise to add more, but didn't...

I've been writing various articles for Bloomingpedia in the last month or so, in an effort not so much to improve that site as to unders...

(Hey, this is my 200th blog post! And it only took me three years!) One principle of agile development that doesn't get a lot of attenti...

Sophia Travis is a Monroe County Council member - and, remarkably, one who is sophisticated enough to have her own blog. On one post , she...