My latest column for SD Times discusses “Little Languages”: a subset of domain-specific languages that can be mastered in a day and implemented in a matter of days or short weeks.

Just pathetic.

According to the U.S. Naval Observatory, sunset here in beautiful Kailua Kona (Eat your heart out: Webcam) will occur today at 5:45 pm, one minute later than yesterday. Hoorah!

But I'm trying to figure out why sunset and sunrise aren't perfectly symmetrical. I mean, I get that local …

Oh, man! I just discovered that one of my most-used public addresses (from email.com) somehow “forgot” that it's supposed to be forwarding my mail to a real account. And, of course, since it's a public address, my Inbox quickly overflowed with offers of Rolexes and ph\@rm4sootikals. So, if …

Peter sez:

Julia really likes Loren's animated demo of his Circuit App…Very few actually venture into the complex yet so exciting world of custom recognizers that work on shapes. That's why Loren's and xThink's applications look so darn impressive - they are the cream of the crop, the ultimate and …

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Andy "ZMan" Dunn who has created a website, The Z Buffer, that's completely dedicated to Managed DirectX goodness. [Via]{style="font-style:italic"}  [InkBlog: The Random Musings of David Weller] :::

Iggy says: I wonder if anybody really cares about text entry speeds in a time when cheap scanners and great OCR technologies are widely available. I doubt there is any relationship between text entry speeds and good writing or good coding which are text intensive activities…Most good writing or …

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Scott Hanselman has a great entry on unit testing ASP.NET code by using Cassini [via]{style="font-style:italic"} [Commonality] :::