I've got a docking cradle in my pants

Because "I've got a joystick in my pocket" is way too obvious to describe Levi Strauss' iPod-ready jeans.

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Time to buy a second-hand Mac?

Apple announced the first Intel-based Macs today. Presumably, this will drive down the eBay-arbitrated fair market value of second-hand Macs, especially the FMV of what had previously been higher-end machines but which would now be "good enough to develop on," machines. Hmmm...

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Windows More Secure?

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C for C# and Java Programmers

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 …

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IronPython 1.0 Beta 1 Is Released

Huzzah! IronPython 1.0 Beta 1 is released: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=94082d26-e689-4f7f-859b-fec6dacf3ae8&displaylang=en

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Only 1% of JBoss / Eclipse code from unpaid developers

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.

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IE7 Warns That This Site Might Be Phishing (It Isn't)

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 …

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Monetizing A Programming Blog

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 …

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Selling Bits Independently: A Cautionary Tale

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 …

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Closing Out 2005 As An Independent

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 …

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