I realize that the preceding may, in fact, make me appear to be a hot-head. In fact, I may be a hot-head. But I think if there's one thing that we should value, it's our time. I spent an hour trying to "clear the cache" because he uploaded a file …

So we've got a page that allows clients to edit email addresses. Turns out that if there are no email addresses associated, the "Add an email" link doesn't show up. I glance at the page and see that the button is inside the loop that's iterating over the emails (this …

My commenting problem has to do with dasBlog validating the viewstate. There is a helpful debugging suggestion in the logs, but my ISP tells me that it is not appropriate to my situation. Until I can spend some time trying to figure that out, I won't subject people to the …

You've got friends visiting. They're in town for 9 days. One day involves driving 4 hours to go to a botanical garden which you've been to before and flowers aren't really your "thing" anyway. Do you do it, because, you know, they're your friends, you'll enjoy being with them, etc …

As the OLPC launch approaches, I thought I'd take a look at the development environment. Somewhat to my surprise, the \<a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Getting_started_programming"" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">OLPC Development Wiki says that:

• Technically any language is usable
• Python is strongly encouraged, to have a …

To the naked eye, it doesn't look like much, but through binoculars, 17P/Holmes is incredible. I don't know how dependent that is on seeing it in very dark skies -- we had a really dark night Saturday. This is definitely one to go out of your way to see.

Alan Zeichick struck a nerve by calling BS on the premise that Daylight Savings Time saves money. Personally, I dislike DST because during the Summer (or, at this point, non-Winter) Hawai'i is 3 hours behind the West Coast, while during the Winter we're an hour closer and I can begin …

Wrox has begun producing low-cost DRM-free electronic content. Their initial product offering is nicely eclectic:

Leverage LINQ in ASP.NET 3.5 Projects
by Roger Jennings
This Wrox Blox introduces you to Language Integrated Query (LINQ), a .NET 3.5 application programming interface (API) and set of extensions to the …

Mathematica, my preferred tool for algorithm development and exploration, now has a runtime viewer that allows full access to Mathematica "notebooks." This is a wonderful step forward and I look forward to making some notebooks available in the future.

From SapphireSteel, the makers of IronRuby, comes the first peek at an IronRuby visual design surface.