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

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

::: {.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 …

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"

1. "Situation …

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I have what was considered a great TV in its day (the year 2000) -- a 27" Sony Trinitron. There are no over-the-air HD signals here on the slopes of Hualalai Volcano, I have basic cable, and my Tivo doesn't record in HD. Project Gotham Racing totally makes me want to …