Just the other day, I was so damned sick of not having a persistent object image that I downloaded Cincom Smalltalk. Ah, Smalltalk! It's been years, my old friend... Where were we when last me met? Hmmm... where the heck's the object for a network query?

Anyway, Sean Malloy …

Microsoft's Robert Scoble calls himself "a human aggregator": he reads 1400+ Weblogs per day relating to his position as a Microsoft evangelist. (Perhaps everyone reading this blog knows of Scoble, but just in case...)

People who filter hundreds of blogs can provide tremendous value: they relieve readers of a reading …

There's been a small uptick in mentions of RentACoder. I subscribed to RentACoder's mailing list and what it primarily establishes is that freelance programming markets are years from maturity. The majority of RFPs are "I need a clone of xyz.com: \\(200," or "I need an email program that automatically …

Ted Neward scooped the MS-Sun announcement.

Okay, this sounds like an April Fool's Joke, but it isn't: in the past week or so, the middle knuckle of my middle finger has started hurting. A moment ago, I just flicked the scroll bar on my mouse and had a serious shooting pain as my finger "tented": I …

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[[Good point. Does it invalidate my comments on visual programming? I don't think so; I think …

Eric Newcomer doubts that visual programming is viable. I disagree. Visual programming is usually conceived to be executable UML, which is a terrible concept. I've argued against visual programming in the past, pointing out that developers value information density and won't embrace something that takes half a screen to express …

Microsoft and Sun have announced that it was all a sad misunderstanding and that from now on, they're best friends for life. Okay, stop smirking and play along: If Sun and Microsoft were to decide to cooperate closely to serve the needs of the entire development community, what would be …

I'm very excited to announce that as of today, April 1st 2004, I've become the world's first micro-outsourced developer. I've hired great developers in Bangalore (GMT +4.5), Cameroon (GMT +1), Brazil (GMT -3), and Vanuatu (GMT -7). My job is to write the unit tests. I post them as …

After downloading the gigantic Whidbey Preview (available at MSDN Subscriber Downloads) and attempting to install it on my sacrificial machine, I reliably get a problem while installing .NET Framework 2.0: "RegSvcs.exe triggers "Memory at 0x00143cb0 tried to write to 0x00143cb0. The memory could not be 'written.'" This happens …