IDEA for C# officially announced! The best language-specific programming editor ever is IntelliJ / JetBrains IDEA for Java. (And yes, I've used and loved Smalltalk and IDEA is better.)
Eugene Belyaev, President and CTO of JetBrains, has let the cat out of the bag, finally, on what will, at least initially …
more ...Well, contrary to my certainty, it looks like more people voted for Schwarzenegger than voted against the recall, which gives the outcome far more legitimacy than I thought it would have. Okay, that's it, no more politics.
more ...Oh, and I try not to let my politics enter my writing, so I'll just make the observation that it's certain that tomorrow more people will vote for Gray Davis to (stay) Governor than will vote for Arnold Schwarzenegger to (become) Governor.
more ...Ah'm so tahred. Tina and I spent the weekend preparing a submission for The Amazing Race and, on top of that, we not only had parties Friday and Saturday night, we hosted a dinner party last night. I spent the whole day today finishing an article that I should have …
more ...This month's Java Developer's Journal "takes it up a notch" in terms of betraying the best service to the readers for advertising bucks. For awhile, JDJ has been selling portions of its cover space to advertisers, imitating the snap-off "belly band" that costs a little more but doesn't actually interfere …
more ...Ink blogging with text recognition. Metaweblog API. App & code coming soon...
Blogged on a Tablet PC
more ...Has anyone programmed Radio Userland using C# or VB.NET? I don't want to get involved in religious wars about blogging APIs, all I want is an example that shows how to create a blog post using .NET objects like HttpWebRequests. My first attempt just timed out and Google isn't …
more ...Oh, by the way, can I suggest a Let's Bash Class-Action Lawsuits Day? I just received some notices from the California-Microsoft settlement: \$1.1 billion dollars?, gee, maybe I'll get some real money... let's see... \$16 for each Windows or MS-DOS operating system, \$29 for each Office... oh, and if …
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