Windows More Secure?
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From the MAKE newsletter:
there's a need for a Java-to-C guide--not just the language, but how it's really used in major apps, how to account for everything you're importing, best practices like unit testing, packaging, exception handling, etc.
It seems perverse at first, but the more I think about it …
more ...Huzzah! IronPython 1.0 Beta 1 is released: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=94082d26-e689-4f7f-859b-fec6dacf3ae8&displaylang=en
more ...Andrew Binstock , my colleague at SD Times has a fantastic column on the realities of OSS development. The idea of a community that contributes code (as opposed to contributing bug reports) is largely a myth.
more ...So a second ago I brought up my homepage and was surprised to see a little "Suspicious Website" button beside the address bar. A phishing site? Moi? So, the good news is that you click on it and right away there's a link that says "I'm the owner, and I …
more ...Don Demsak brings up the question of making money off blogging. This is appealing to me, not so much because I like blogging but because I make, in most years, the majority of my money by writing. So, although you wouldn't know it from the quality of the writing on …
more ...Once upon a time, I wrote a book about C#. More accurately, I talked to a friend who had written a Java book that I thought was proven to be a good way to teach that language and I said "Hey, can I license the content of your book and …
more ...I just posted my three final invoices for 2005, my first full year of living in Hawai'i. The good news is that I beat my budget targets by 16%. The bad news is that, because of the move, I reduced those targets by 15%! The other bad news is that …
more ...::: {.Section1} [Gus Mueller, developer of Voodoo, a desktop Wiki application for the Mac, has been able to quit his day job based on the sales of his two applications. Eric Sink, who developed a guaranteed-winnable version of Windows Solitaire, made \$215 in 15 months and has sold off the app …
more ...I have a subscription MusicMatch's "On Demand" service, which includes the ability to put in an artist and say "Music like this." I loved this when I first experienced it, but Pandora is much better.
Compare these two results for a seed of "Jesus & Mary Chain":
MusicMatch "Artist Match"