This report from the Microsoft-Sun Java trial reads "Microsoft counters that Sun doesn't need the injunction because at least half the world's software developers already use Java." I can't find any direct reference to what was said, but I'd be very surprised to learn that Microsoft believes that half the …

Optimal shoe tying strategy proven by mathematician: Ig Nobel, once seen as a two-way race between the guy who proved that Minesweeper is NP-Complete and the team that proved Tetris is NP-Complete, now considered wide-open by geeky oddsmakers.

Not all code breakage is bad

Russ feels that a slavish devotion to interfaces is over-engineering. Darren weighs in on the side of interfaces, but seems to mostly be advocating the naming convention. Cedric advocates *the consistent use of factories when programming with interfaces. *

I like interfaces a lot. Raised …

Holy cow! Completely browsable source code to Rotor! via [Sam Gentile's blog].

OOP, performance, C# on non-MS platforms top subscriber concerns

Object-oriented analysis & design is the topic of most interest to subscribers of my mailing list, with fundamentals of object-oriented programming coming in second. Tuning C# for performance is next, the top-most .NET-specific interest and a topic of perennial interest. I might …

Jason Whittington quoted this: *Matt Gripes wrote I'm glad Ximian wrote a C# port to linux, but, at the end of the day, is .NET going to be a uni-platform technology? * [Thinking In .NET]

And then Jason added: This problem is one I've been thinking about a lot lately....The …

Winter Vomiting Disease is currently spreading fast through Scotland and northern England. Link (via Exciting Monkey Bum Stories for Boys & Girls)

So that's what I catch the morning after Christmas parties and New Year's Eve!

Information Awareness. This article should have been an indictment of how the government has failed to protect the voters from identity fraud, and instead protects only the banks and government bureaucrats.  In fact, the government is completely impotent to prevent similar and ongoing fraud -- the problems with identity security across …

Cedric Beust's blog entry from the J2EE / .NET Smackdown event. Since he was in the audience, he was actually able to see the slides! He's got some good quotes.

Matt Gripes wrote: What about platform independence? I thought one of the paramount reasons to write applications in Java was "write once, run anywhere". I like that my java apps work on any platform that has a JVM. When did that become unimportant or unnecessary?

I'm glad Ximian wrote a …