My nephew Jake went to a friend's bar mitzvah at the Radisson in Scranton, PA. Apparently, the cast of The Office is in town doing a little goodwill and presumably shooting some exteriors (although I don't know why they need to -- the scenes they've been using look totally like Northeastern …

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This might be better as a series of Twitter "thinking about..." posts, but since I don't really "get" Twitter, I'll jot down this nagging concern here...

I was reading this excellent post on \<a href="http://geekswithblogs.net/coredump/archive/2007/10/19/116178.aspx"" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer …

My ever-fitful comment system is apparently acting up, so from my email come these comments in reference to this post :

I wonder if "cron" would also be a relevant addition to mashup. One of the things I tried to achieve with a Yahoo Pipe and a Google Mashup was to …

IronRuby Program Manager John Lam regarding JRuby's \<a href="http://ola-bini.blogspot.com/"" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Ola Bini:

LOB: If you and Ola Bini were bungie-chorded into a steel cage supplied with mauls, chainsaws, and a copy of Bentley's "Programming Pearls," which of you would survive?

JL: Well …

I assume that this is a joke / conceptual art statement but it does remind me of the thought processes of young nerds that are so failure-prone: "If only I elaborate the logical inconsistency of the bully's statements, he will no longer have the temerity to call me names!" On the …

Via Sue Schmitz comes the sad word that Alex, the amazing Gray Parrot whose cognitive abilities were literally incredible, has died. Supposedly (there I go with the doubt), he had a vocabulary of 150 words, could count recognize quantities up to 6, could identify 50 objects, understood concepts such as …

Is this a strictly true statement? 

"One can freely download command-line compilers for all Microsoft languages and never use Visual Studio."

Specifically, don't you need VS to develop for Smartphones and / or Windows Mobile?

With the release to public beta of Popfly, Microsoft's mashup editor, I'll reiterate my theory that mashups are the UNIX shell of the Internet. The corollary is that we need a suite of command equivalents:

Command Mashup Alternative cd, mkdir, rmdir facilities for manipulating "current URI"; REST principles, etc. mailx …

I'm tempted to label as "shocking" the announcement that F# will become a product fully integrated into Visual Studio, but I suppose it would be hard for anyone to ignore stuff as compelling as this. F# is a derivative of OCaml and is a functional programming language. Those who delve …