This note from the spouse of an Electronic Arts employee, detailing mandatory 80+ hour work weeks with no overtime pay or comp time, rings totally true to me. via \<a href="http://www.brandonfurtwangler.com/index.php%3fp%3d46" ">Brandon Furtwangler

Holy Cow! I don't think I've ever been happier with a 129K download than with the ARSU utility. It makes a huge improvement in Acrobat Reader start-up time.

Scan Computers is touting a new PC specially designed for project managers, but it looks to me like an absolutely standard PC with a special software bundle. What I'm interested in is a “collaborative” form-factor: support for two external displays, two keyboard/mice, a digitizer for sketching... Actually, you could …

Sam Gentile, who's usually right about these things, prefers TestDriven.NET to NUnit. I'll have to check it out on my next project. I'm also planning on trying out CruiseControl.NET next time. Oh, and just to make it topical, maybe I'll write a Konfabulator for Windows widget to show …

Lluis Sanchez Gual has written a new code-generation API for Mono that is intermediate between the CIL generation of System.Reflection.Emit and generating C# code (which is, naturally, a tactic that limits you to what C# can perform). I've been writing a lot about little languages lately (and in …

Wow. Just 10 years ago, when Sander Antoniades and I were pitching the idea of Game Developer magazine to our publishing company, we had to have pages of references showing that videogaming was a multibillion industry because no one believed it.

\$100M in a single day is rare air, even …

It's really hot when you get this close to magma.

Which File Extension are You?

I started writing a “What Programming Language Are You?” quiz. My stack crashed while trying to come up with clever ways to determine if someone was more recursive or iterative.

Anyhow, if you want to see a silly little “What Programming Language Are You?“ quiz …

Kenneth Iverson, inventor of APL, J, and winner of the 1979 Turing Award (his talk: “Notation as a Tool of Thought“), died last month at the age of 84. Although APL was quite popular, Iverson will be remembered as one who contributed more towards the formal unification of mathematical …

I think that libertarianism (small 'l' anyway) is the sort of natural instinct of programmers. As a group, I'd say we work hard, believe in an entrepreneurial potential, most of us are in the private sector. We don't have the diversity we could, but we all know that smarts aren't …