Eric Sink had an incredibly timely post on "The Eventual Death of Developer Magazines" in which he noted that print publications such as Dr. Dobb's, Software Development, and Visual Studio were becoming thinner and thinner. Things were even worse than he noted, though, since the magazines held a certain portfolio …

Oh well. The writing had been on the wall, but today it's official: Software Development magazine, which I founded in 1992, has been absorbed by Dr. Dobb's Journal and will cease publication. Ironically, SD was born when Dr. Dobb's absorbed Computer Language after Miller Freeman (now CMP) bought DDJ. Between …

I've said I "love Deadwood" before, but a search on Amazon for the 2nd season of Deadwood returns "Female Masturbation - Clitoris: The Key to a Woman's Pleasure". Huh. That's a whole 'nother level of fan.

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Having just watched "Junebug" (so far, my favorite movie released in 2005, but Hawaii being what it is, I haven't yet seen some others that I expect to like a lot), we were reflecting on how over-rated "Crash" is. At this point, if you want to see characters that have …

Researchers have already begun using Google to help with AI tasks. For instance, if you search Google for two words, you can get a sense of their relatedness by comparing the relative number of links returned (e.g., "cat and dog" vs. "cat and politics"

Wikipedia is an even greater …

Programming language popularity is a fascination of mine and has been since (at least) I joined "Computer Language" magazine "back in the day." Note that this is a different fascination than programming language capability, which goes all the way back to the time I read my Dad's copy of "Computer …

James Robertson thinks that I'm too breathless about LINQ in my recent article about C#'s popularity on the CLR. For some reason, I can't post to his comment section, so I'll just respond here and shoot him a trackback:

What got through the asbestos was the comment that I …

Apparently, "it's been pretty much established as fact that Origami is a new "ultramobile lifestyle PC" from Microsoft."

This fits a couple other data points, but we'll just have to see. One way or the other, though, whoever organized this "mystery" sure earned their pay. I suspect that 90% of …

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