I like Andy Hunt, and I like Ruby, but his post at perpetuates a myth that I think is harmful. He says of Ruby, "First, more than any other language I've used, it stays out of your way. You don't have to spend any effort 'satisfying the compiler'.... I can …

Oh, you have to try My Heritage. It diagnosed my temperament perfectly:

When my application starts, it sets in motion a process by which an event is received back at the main form. It's an event that's common enough (let's say, "Maximize Window") but the first time I receive it, I have to process it in a special manner. So, I have …

What's troubling about this is that the press, in reporting this incident, jeopardizes the plan by which Cheney poses as a geriatric heart patient, lures terrorists into range, and then blasts them to hell.

It's always nice to make a blogroll cut.

But then, optionsScalper gloats about coming in "above" me, so of course I check to see how out-ranked I am.

You'd think that a guy who makes his business in derivatives trading would recognize alphabetical ordering.

Mansour Safai, an important player in the software development tools industry, has died. He was still young and my thoughts are with his family and children.

Of all the scenarios being mooted on the purchase of Borland's line of compilers and IDEs, the one that I like the most is Novell.

Novell's Mono project includes an implementation of the .NET CLI that runs on Windows, Linux, OS X, and a number of UNIXes. The Delphi group …

Every indication is that the people involved in Borland's compilers and IDE are confident that they will carry the products forward.

I talked to a couple people and I still haven't heard of a specific suitor, but there's also a real tone of confidence.

There's already a "Delphi Corporation", but …

Today, Borland announced that they are seeking a buyer for their line of IDEs and compilers and will concentrate on their Application Lifecycle Management tools. They also announced that they're buying Segue, which on a normal day would be big news, but, my god, the end of Turbo?

This really …

::: {.Section1} TG Daily is reporting that [“Ultra Mobile Lifestyle PCs” will be launched in the 1^st^ Quarter]{style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial"} (not much time to make that!). I think there’s huge potential for this form factor if the price point can really be brought down to …