\$3 a month for Pandora? Geez, I might have to buy a cellphone just to get it.

Web broadcaster Pandora has announced Pandora on the Go, a mobile client that works with a handful of Sprint cellphones.
There's a 30 day free trial for Sprint Power vision customers. After the …

Scott Hanselman weighed in on the Ruby buzz, saying that no language is all things to all people at all times.  I agree, but think that there are a couple things about Ruby that don't require us to get into language design philosophies. Let me quickly state that these things …

Via  Rob Connery Interviewed by Miguel de Icaza, I took a quick look at SubSonic, which appears to be a good solution in the ASP.NET world for very rapidly generating Create-Retrieve-Update-Delete functionality pages that honor database foreign keys.

One of the dazzlers in the Ruby world is a library …

My friend Doug has apparently gotten his converted Karmann Ghia onto the road...

Popfly is the name (and URL) of Microsoft's new non-professional developer community, a Windows Live site whose flashiest feature is a Silverlight-based "mashup editor" that facilitates pipes-and-filters development. Before reviewing the gratuitous 3-D spinning cubes, though, pay attention to the context:

• Visual Studio Express has had 14,000,000 downloads …

I'm dying because I've just had a long talk with two of Microsoft's heavy hitters on the Dynamic Languages Runtime (DLR) team and have much to discuss, yet I am in a frenzy preparing for a business trip and cannot yet take the time to do the discussion any kind …

Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration. (Stan Kelly-Bootle)

That quote, which I saw by way of Jeff Atwood's latest, reminds me of what may be my favorite Stan Kelly-Bootle story. Stan worked on the EDSAC which …

It caught my eye that "I'll Stand By You" by Carrie Underwood is the #2 single on iTunes. I clicked on the tune to hear the snippet (I won't buy copy-protected music ever again, but I do like browsing...). Not to be harsh to Carrie Underwood, who has a lovely …

There are lots of worthy causes out there to donate to, but it's always nice to have a personal connection. Scott Hanselman, whose blog and podcast are must-reading/hearing, is fighting diabetes.

I'll be matching donations to Team Hanselman up to ... see now, never having done this before, I don't …

My goal is to create a VM running Windows 3.11 (VMWare by preference, but Virtual PC if it's easier).

One can download EN_MSDOS60.EXE and EN_WIN311.EXE from MSDN, but these files seem to simply be compressions of the files in the relevant distributions. Most challengingly, EN_MSDOS60.EXE uncompresses …