Pt. 1, Pt. 2, and \<a href="http://www.knowing.net/PermaLink%2cguid%2cb9661672-40f8-4e8f-a26e-985fdffd5d2b.aspx"" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Pt. 3

One reason why it's very difficult to make a living writing about software development is that while traditional publications were deadline-driven, online outlets are marketing-driven. When there's a …

Must ... Resist ...  

Can't ... Stop ...

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?