Weird. On one of my Tablets, the "Start" button has stopped working. It changes color when you mouse / pen over, but when you click on it ... nothing. Kind of a problem.

This is the final post in a series of 3 covering 15 exercises that provide a sense of a programming  language's idioms and "feel." For newcomers, if you can't "jump in" and tackle these exercises in a  particular programming language, don't embarrass yourself by claiming to know that language. For …

This is the 2nd in a series of 3 posts covering 15 exercises that provide a sense of a programming  language's idioms and "feel." For newcomers, if you can't "jump in" and tackle these exercises in a  particular programming language, don't embarrass yourself by claiming to know that language. For …

There's a popular post on Digg right now entitled "15 Exercises for Learning a New Programming  Language." The list is discouragingly non-structural: calculate a function and print out one thing if it's  \<= , another if it's greater, get system time and format it, etc. The exercises, while fine enough for familiarizing …

Ozzie is going to assume the "chief software architect," role, Mundie is going to become the chief strategist. Stock market reaction forthcoming...

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/jun06/06-15CorpNewsPR.mspx

Bill Gates is going to step down in August 2008. Details tk.

Good environmental news is all too rare: The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands have become the world's largest protected oceanic environment.

A few weeks ago we saw a presentation by the author of "Archipelago." Her photos were incredible, but the thing that stuck with me was the statistic that 55% of the …

You probably knew that there was a correlation between assertion and defect density, but here's a paper that proves it.

Assert(Use_Assertions)

Nick Hodges has been named Product Manager of Delphi at "DevCo," the to-be-named, to-be-formalized spin-off of Borland's languages division. His blog.