more ...*Mark Frauenfelder*: The city of Pleasanton, California has come up with a funny way to punish speeders:
[The] city's traffic engineers have created a traffic signal with attitude. It senses when a speeder is approaching and metes out swift punishment. It doesn't write a ticket. It immediately turns from green …
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more ...[Browsing Freshmeat this morning and I noticed that DB40 has gone open source…. db4objects - native Java and .NET open source object database engine and is well worth a look. [Via]{style="font-style:italic"} [Fast Takes]]{style=""}
Ah! Object databases. Always have been The Next Big Thing. And I’m …
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more ...We announced it last week, but the DSL Tools home page just went live today. The big thing is the Microsoft Tools for Domain Specific Languages Technology Preview. There's also a walkthru of the tool, a newsgroup and Jochen's blog. We also published the third article in the Software …
My latest column for SD Times is a bit of spleen-venting about stupid MBAs who believe that the loss of technical expertise is fine: “[F]uture entrepreneurs and great businesspeople will come from the countries where the work is done, not from a country whose 'comparative advantage' is reduced to …
more ...Jon Udell's recent forays into making movies of software inspired me to take this video of “Pynk,” my interactive Python IDE for the TabletPC, in action. Here then, Ladies & Gentlemen, I give you: “Interpreting Ink as Python code.” Consider this a 1 minute and 20 second teaser for a 2 …
more ...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.
more ...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 …
more ...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 …
more ...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 …
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