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Where's the LHS on 6-x;? And does that say "parent friendly" under the "x++"?

I imagine that every single person who reads this blog other than my sister (Hi Donna!) knows who Jon Udell is and knows that he is joining Microsoft. In the small world of "people who make their living by writing about software development," Jon is clearly the leading light on …

For a few years, I've been a happy subscriber to Musicmatch Universal, a system that gave me on-demand streaming of a sizeable music catalog. Musicmatch also had a \$.99 song-purchase facility from which I bought a few songs. Although I've always hated the Musicmatch player (bloated, self-updating, etc.) I was …

I'd rather hang out with John Hodgman. I'd rather get a C++ GUI Programming Guide.  

Paul... uh... NoLastName has an excellent post on silver bullets and functional programming. He cites studies, makes logical connections... why, it's hardly a blog post at all!

Anyway, I starting writing a comment, but it grew and grew, so I am posting it here instead. Read his post first....

You …

I wish I could draw. I wish I could use tools to make my hideous drawings into acceptable drawings.

This guy can draw and can use tools to make his sketches into better drawings.

I wish I could learn something from this guy.

In comments to my previous post, Wesner Moise says:

• given today's components, "why build vi?";
• the difficulty arising from software state "is a solved problem in functional programming"; and
• suggests that the advances in graphics and networking that I'd acknowledged amount to a silver bullet.

I'm afraid he's missing the …

I'm going out on a limb, I know, but I'm going to say that I don't think NASA will be ready to begin construction base on the moon in the year 2020 and, darn it, I know I shouldn't speculate wildly like this, but I'm going to say that when …

Wesner Moise quickly reviews Brook's "No Silver Bullets" assertion and claims "[t]hat assertion turns out to be pure nonsense, amply disproven by numerous advances in IDEs, languages, frameworks, componentization over the past few decades."

I couldn't disagree more. While the cumulative effects have given us more than an order …

Apparently, the next version of Office is going to be 14, embracing the triskedecaphobic convention of buildings in skipping the sp-o-o-o-k-y ramifications of, you know, counting.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but when you get to the point where, despite your worldwide hegemony on office documents …