Big news: Charles Simonyi and Gregor Kiczales are launching a software tools company. Simonyi is, in a very real sense, the most famous of all coders from Microsoft (ever heard of Hungarian notation?). Kiczales is the guiding light behind the Aspect-J aspect-oriented programming language. The name of their company is …

In the latest round of "How cool is C#" anecdotes, I've ported my personal mailing list manager entirely over to Gearhost (my hosting service). My C# MLM is based on the "JavaDomo" MLM I wrote for Java Pro a few years ago, and if I get significant requests, I'll clean …

Gearhost, my hosting service, rocks powerfully. Lightning fast response on technical questions, .NET hosting, good price. Highly recommended.

There's a debate raging about whether binary XML is a good idea (summary: binary XML would undoubtedly have performance benefits, but would it undermine crucial benefits of XML?). Ingo Rammer is the proponent of the idea and while I concede virtually every point he makes, on balance it seems to …

I took a shot at belly-gazing, po-mo grad students criticizing Todd Solondz before, but now they're after Tony Soprano! That's just disrespectful:

On male girth: ''Fatness is a signifier with many overlapping and even contradictory signifieds.'' On male behavior: ''Nearly all of Tony's 'business' relationships . . . are characterized by a phallocentric …

The latest PC Mag has an article on a virtual keyboard. Frankly, I'm dubious that you can pull this off with the processing power on current PDAs. I certainly hope I'm wrong; I'd love to touchtype on a PDA. I like this one even more, although I bet it takes …

Software archaeologists have unearthed the first smiley!

The Qt toolkit is really nice and there are now C# bindings for it.  If you're programming with Mono, I would highly recommend keeping up with this Qt# project.

I just found out that I can upload this Weblog directly to http://www.ThinkingIn.NET/ and everything (comments, etc.) works! Well, goody, now I can spend a day modifying my Radio UserLand template to match my homepage.

Finished a review of Kylix 3 today for SD Times. Short version: very nice tool for C++ development in Linux, particularly for enterprise apps with a need for highly replicable clients (e.g., POS, brilliant terminals, custom data-entry, etc.).