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Oh yeah, another thing I bought and love is MusicMatch Radio. It does a great job of creating a streaming radio station that matches my taste. I can't figure out how to exclude a specific artist (I can understand why it thinks I'd like Sonic Youth, but I just don't …

I just came across an advertisement for Diskeeper 8. I bought this \$45 utility about a month ago and recommend it: it noticeably improved the performance of my laptop.

Stan Lippman...is now blogging!....His first blog, The Revised C++ Language Design Supporting .NET -- Part 1 is a must read.  via [Sam Gentile's Blog]

If you're a C++ programmer, you know who Stan Lippman is.

I just saw this article on The Server Side, talking about rules assessment from within Message-Driven Beans and so on....The problem here is that the solution simply won't scale...This is why God invented rules engines like ILog, JESS and drools. via [The Mountain of Worthless Information]

~~As far …

The December Software Development is themed "Offshore Uproar" and has a lot of food for thought. There're some telling survey results (SD has gotten very sophisticated in terms of surveys -- I think they're pretty clearly the best in the software development trade press), including this tidbit:

"How would you rate …

During a chat with John Montgomery yesterday, he tangentially revealed a stunning number: according to Microsoft, there are more than 7 million "hobbyist programmers" in the US alone. Not professionals, not students, not "macro kings and queens," not sysadmins with a knowledge of Perl, but flat-out hobbyists.

I still don't …