Back in the mid-90s, when I worked for a publishing company and and (snail-)mailing lists were important to me, I would iterate my middle initial any time I signed up for a magazine or registered at a conference.

To this day I regularly receive come-ons addressed to Larry E …

Dang. That's kind of cool. Get your own here.

I had a conversation with the Herding Code guys regarding DSLs, DSL DevCon, and some of my skepticism regarding Oslo and the DSL hype.

Intentional Software has forged a silver bullet. It's terribly difficult not to go into that in great depth (I will shortly), but for now, I simply don't want to bury the lede.

OK, so other than that what was interesting?

There are several categories that need to be talked about …

At the recent DSL DevCon, Martin Fowler gave an excellent keynote speech discussing domain-specific languages, an important subject that seems certain to be the buzzword of the next year or two.

However, one slide of his got my goat, leading me to foam at the mouth, beat the table with …

There's a school of thought in anthropology that the form and vocabulary of the language you speak deeply affects how you think, even to the point of limiting if you can think about certain things. This is called the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis. There's definitely something to it, although probably not in …

Andrew Cooper, a local astronomer, laments the continued belief in astrology, which apparently is so detached from the facts that they'll print "The Sun has entered Aries," when, due to precession, the Sun is still well inside Pisces.

Hawai'i is a place of deep spirituality, both mainstream and New Age …

As far as I know, you cannot program the iPhone with Ruby. However, you can program OS X Cocoa applications with Ruby and, as a learning experience, it's very helpful.

I am coming to believe that the biggest barrier to learning how to program Cocoa are tutorials that emphasize the …

The Pragmatic Bookshelf  is going Kindle and iPhone compatible, with support for .epub (iPhone) and .mobi (Kindle) formats.

I just downloaded RubyCocoa on the Kindle and it looks excellent -- with listings in monospaced font! -- but most of my other books are not yet available in Kindle format.

Pragmatic Programmers have …

In response to a request from the esteemed Director of the FBI Blogs, these are some of the blog posts that have gotten the most traffic through the years:

• 15 Exercises to Know a Programming Language
• Top 10 Things I've Learned About Computers From Movies And Any Episode of "24 …