I have recently finished an engagement with a client and am footloose and fancy free.

If anyone is looking for an excellent developer with an object-oriented bias and a deep belief that to improve productivity teams should concentrate on quality, please drop me a line at lobrien "at" knowing "dot …

Google Code Blog: Introducing Closure Tools.

Given Google's resources, goals, and products, this automatically becomes a leading candidate as a "standard library" for developers doing JavaScript work (i.e., anyone working with the Web). Not sure of its overlap / incompatibility with other major libraries, but this will definitely reward study …

Introducing Debugging for MonoTouch - Miguel de Icaza.

I've been very impressed by MonoTouch and MonoDevelop for iPhone programming: it's a great combination of the CocoaTouch APIs (which are very nice) and the C# programming language (which is my favorite mainstream language if you don't think that Ruby has crossed the …

The 15th anniversary of the release of Design Patterns led to the following interviews:
Design Patterns 15 Years Later: An Interview with Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, and Ralph Johnson
Grady Booch on Design Patterns, OOP, and Coffee

I posted two old articles that were perennial Google link-bait:

Genetic Algorithms in C#

Programming Sabre in C#, Java, and XML

I'd lost the articles as part of switching from DasBlog to WordPress.

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This blog post is being dictated using MacSpeech Dictate. That's more like it.

I am using the jawbone Bluetooth headset, connected to my Mac. Actually, the word was "A." not "the …

I don't know if this is new to Snow Leopard, but I just paired my Jawbone Bluetooth headset with my Mac Pro desktop as the input/output audio device and it works! Sound quality for playback is not great (I don't think I'll be listening to much music this way …

Quicken 2006 doesn't run under Windows 7 and there will not be a Mac version until 2010.

I can't get Hugs or Mercurial running under Snow Leopard due to architecture incompatibilities (32- vs 64-bit) in various support libraries. It's frustrating wasting so much time downloading, building, tracking dependencies, etc. Especially …

I just uploaded a MonoTouch tutorial porting Sadun's Recipe 2-1 (Stepwise Subviews) to MonoTouch. Let me know if you find it useful.

The FTC recently produced new rules governing disclosure for bloggers and other "word-of-mouth-advertisers." Basically, the take-away is that a blog, Tweet, Facebook, Amazon review, etc. is now viewed as a paid endorsement if you receive the product from the manufacturer for free. Okay, fair enough. But the FTC “does not …