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.

My favorite technical book of the past year was Practical Common Lisp by Peter Seibel. Believe me, if it could convince me to return to Lisp, it's a well-written book.

However, all the cool kids are learning Ruby. Ruby has some Lisp-like flexibility in comparison to more popular languages like …

Success! I can access Tablet SDK functionality from Java. Rather than use COM, my original tactic, I did what I joked about: used C++/CLI so that the call is Java->Unmanaged C++->C (Win32)->Managed C++! Pretty funny, but not all that hard to follow in the source code …

The first CTP drop of the new VS2005 geared for DBAs is now available for download.

eWeek's David Morgenstern is skeptical of Microsoft's ReadyBoost and ReadyDrive technologies. These are Vista capabilities that allow flash memory to increase apparent RAM and speed boot times respectively. As far as ReadyBoost goes, I agree: the idea of depending on a USB dongle to increase RAM seems very hinky to …

I was reading an article about Libya and it mentioned, as is common in stories from developing nations, the many satellite dishes you see. This is something I can personally vouch for, having seen many satellite dishes in places like Papua New Guinea and Irian Jaya. What I don't get …

Well done. via \<a href="http://www.knowing.net/ct.ashx?id=2b24309b-4cf6-414b-b27e-c5a346a93128&url=http%3a%2f%2fswigartconsulting.blogs.com%2ftech_blender%2f"" target=_blank rel="noopener noreferrer">Scott Swigart

Wesner Moise rants about the problems in GDI+. It's a good read and contains a link to a crucial KnowledgeBase article.You wouldn't think that one would fall back to GDI as an example of a "good" text-layout API, but at least it's lightweight. WPF has a vastly improved API …

So I'm trying to write a program to manipulate the Tablet PC Input Panel from within a Java application. So I have to use JNI to interop with a native .DLL written in C++. My DLL uses Win32 to find the handles to the Java application edit windows and then …