In August 1998, U.S. intelligence learned that a "group of unidentified Arabs planned to fly an explosive-laden plane from a foreign country into the World Trade Center." So my question is: When are we going to start holding our elected representatives responsible?
In other, actually-related-to-programming news: I just posted …
more ...This white-paper on SCM best practices appears in the October Dobb's. It's excellent. Incidentally, I enjoyed four articles in this issue; it almost restores my faith in programming magazines.
more ...There's a pretty good article in the October Dobb's about complexity and the use of gaming agents. One caveat, though; the article includes a figure that shows a model outperforming various other strategies in a financial market. The text mentions something that anyone interested in using computers to do financial …
more ...Borland eyes WebGain users. Company seeks to provide safe haven for VisualCaf
more ...Big news: Charles Simonyi and Gregor Kiczales are launching a software tools company. Simonyi is, in a very real sense, the most famous of all coders from Microsoft (ever heard of Hungarian notation?). Kiczales is the guiding light behind the Aspect-J aspect-oriented programming language. The name of their company is …
more ...In the latest round of "How cool is C#" anecdotes, I've ported my personal mailing list manager entirely over to Gearhost (my hosting service). My C# MLM is based on the "JavaDomo" MLM I wrote for Java Pro a few years ago, and if I get significant requests, I'll clean …
more ...There's a debate raging about whether binary XML is a good idea (summary: binary XML would undoubtedly have performance benefits, but would it undermine crucial benefits of XML?). Ingo Rammer is the proponent of the idea and while I concede virtually every point he makes, on balance it seems to …
more ...I took a shot at belly-gazing, po-mo grad students criticizing Todd Solondz before, but now they're after Tony Soprano! That's just disrespectful:
more ...On male girth: ''Fatness is a signifier with many overlapping and even contradictory signifieds.'' On male behavior: ''Nearly all of Tony's 'business' relationships . . . are characterized by a phallocentric …