The Game Developer's Conference is, without a question, the best programmer's tradeshow going. There's no other show that touches it in terms of technical depth -- introductory-level lectures at the GDC are what other shows would label advanced, and advanced-level lectures are the GDC are generally only comprehensible by excellent programmers …

According to City and Guilds, only 14% of British IT professionals are "very happy" in their jobs. The most satisfied are "Care Assistants" at 40% and the least are "[Real] estate agents" at 4%. via Good Morning Silicon Valley

I don't usually stick my nose into hardware issues, but one of the themes of the talk I had with Microsoft's Tablet PC gang today was that the Tablet PC technology (high-resolution digitizing screen, ink, etc.) is moving into some really interesting form factors -- some smaller than traditional notebooks, some …

In a meeting with Microsoft, Cory Linton clarified that the big \$100k contest is actually until September, not July, allowing for the possibility of some "from scratch" entries.

Blogged on a Tablet PC

Forbes discusses deterring the rich: In Finland, a man who made 7 million euros per year was given a traffic ticket for 170,000 euros. The expected 487,000,000 euro fine to be levied on Microsoft, while a whopping sum to you and me, works out to the same …

I don't get screen. I've never used it. Can someone explain why it's cool?

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The REST is Salient

Michael Flanakin reacted to  of my SDTimes article on the (relative) failure of dynamic languages within .NET with an interesting proposal: Perhaps every namespace could have a default "utility" class that hides OO complexity. There's even a tiny bit of a precedent in that .NET attributes named SomeAttribute are exposed …

In a comment on a previous post, Alex Peake warns that in searching for what Jaron Lanier calls "biomimetic" programming metaphors, "we must be careful not to fall into the trap of early flight pioneers - that of trying to emulate birds (too closely) in order to build a flying machine …