A cautionary tale from the iPhone market in which a successful app developer discovered that an unscrupulous development house included his product in their portfolio.

I can attest that this happens. I have had direct experience with a component that, in retrospect, was almost certainly stolen and reverse-engineered. When confronted …

Registax needs a VFW H264 compressor in order to process video from the Vado HD camera. After installing DTS x264 Vfw 01.22.2007 things seem to work.

Complex derivatives are "intractable" -- you can't tell if they're being tampered with - Boing Boing.

Determining if a "Collateralized Debt Obligation" was tampered with is a "densest subgraph" problem, which is NP-Complete. Which is a fine thing to depend a global economy on.

I had put off buying a telescope my entire adult life because I knew that you had to spend a good amount of money for quality and that, when it comes to a hobby that revolves around fleeting glimpses of faint and fuzzy objects, you must have confidence in your …

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HTML is typically formatted to show structural containment:

<h1>Topic</h1>
   <p>Some paragraph.</p>
   <p>Next para.</p>
   <ul>
      <li>item 1</li>
      <li>item 2</li>
   </ul>

Code is typically formatted to show flow-of-control:

node = tree.append "Topic 1"
node.append "Some paragraph."
node.append "Next para."
list …

I have recently finished an engagement with a client and am footloose and fancy free.

If anyone is looking for an excellent developer with an object-oriented bias and a deep belief that to improve productivity teams should concentrate on quality, please drop me a line at lobrien "at" knowing "dot …

Google Code Blog: Introducing Closure Tools.

Given Google's resources, goals, and products, this automatically becomes a leading candidate as a "standard library" for developers doing JavaScript work (i.e., anyone working with the Web). Not sure of its overlap / incompatibility with other major libraries, but this will definitely reward study …

Introducing Debugging for MonoTouch - Miguel de Icaza.

I've been very impressed by MonoTouch and MonoDevelop for iPhone programming: it's a great combination of the CocoaTouch APIs (which are very nice) and the C# programming language (which is my favorite mainstream language if you don't think that Ruby has crossed the …

The 15th anniversary of the release of Design Patterns led to the following interviews:
Design Patterns 15 Years Later: An Interview with Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, and Ralph Johnson
Grady Booch on Design Patterns, OOP, and Coffee