I was just scanning my latest copy of one of the very last independent software development magazines (independent as in "copy not subject to approval by vendors") and saw an article on REST. It seems intuitive to me that if you're a programming magazine today, you compete on clarity and …

A big earthquake swarm on the SE side of the island is "consistent with a shallow intrusion of magma" at Kilauea / Pu'u O'o. They don't predict eruptions, but I have a feeling that Pele might be restless. Luckily, that's 60 miles away and on the other side of a 13 …

This isn't "fool me twice, shame on you," it's like "fool me every freakin' year for the past decade." At least Norton 360 doesn't seem to consume huge portions of my CPU constantly.

I hesitate to call Mark McKeown's \<a href="http://betathoughts.blogspot.com/2007/06/brief-history-of-consensus-2pc-and.html"" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Brief History of Consensus, 2PC, and Transaction Commit (via just about everyone, but let's say Bill de h?ra) a "blog post." It reads much more like a darn …

Can't talk about it, but I demo'ed something today. I love it when the chewing gum and baling wire doesn't show.

That was a lot of fun. It's been a long time since I've done a big stakes demo.

Ambiguous? Of course. But c'mon, there's clearly one reading that gives David Chase credit for being brilliant.

Having said that -- Could anyone stand watching more than the first 15 minutes of John from Cincinnati? I only made it that far because it was David Milch.

Dan Bricklin has posted a thoughtful article on Wikipedia's "Spreadsheet" page. Bricklin quickly establishes that the page is well below par and may be tainted by someone's personal agenda. Given Bricklin's knowledge and involvement with this important topic, the critique should certainly be taken seriously, both as an indictment of …

Google's interest in concurrent programming is no surprise -- indexing the Web involves a lot of parallelism -- but their \<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/05/google_buys_peakstream/"" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">acquisition of Peakstream, developers of a low-level programming tool, is startling.

To quickly review: today's Graphics …

Have you ever noticed that "Buy This Book Used..." prices from Amazon and the like are often bizarre? Often they're strangely specific -- "\$43.72" -- and often they're insanely overpriced "Paperback 23rd Printing of Programming with dBase II: \$1,234.56"

Jeff Duntemann thinks it's due to 'bots. If it's not …

I'm aware that my blog has been troublesome lately (hopefully, your aggregator has borne the pain). I run \<a href="http://www.dasblog.info/"" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">dasBlog, which I generally like and in which I have an insane investment (oh, look, I started this blog 5 years …