DeveloperWorks interviewed Rosalyn Lum and I about the Jolt Awards (IBM was a big winner this year).

via Dan Fernandez

Eye-tracking studies by Jakob Nielsen lead to the recommendation "Show numbers as numerals when writing for online readers." This contradicts the traditional style rule of writing out numbers less than 100 (or sometimes 10) (I really had to stop and consciously use numerals for those!).

One of the reasons that functional programming is worth studying is that it abounds with opportunities for implicit parallelization. As Jon Harrop discusses in this post, the map function takes a function object f and an array [a, b, c, d] and returns [f(a), f(b), f(c), f …

In the way of computers and their miserable antics, my attempts to figure out my system freeze led to a disaster. After determining that my system continued to freeze even when using the "VgaSave" graphics adapter, I began to suspect that it might be my Wireless Network Card (a WMP54GX …

My system has begun locking up and the circumstantial evidence, much to my surprise, ~~seem to point to Firefox~~. The lockup is a hard one: the screen freezes with no mouse response, no perfmon counters, no hard drive activity. Have to go to the big red switch. I recently re-installed …

Todor Georgiev, a scientist at Adobe, has etched a lens so that it creates many images. "Software merges the mini-images into a single image that the photographer can focus and refocus at will." (Link to BoingBong report, not original, which may be BoingBoinged/Slashdotted.) So that's what we'll be using …

"But this isn't a silver bullet!" Fabian insisted. "It's a djinni-bearing magic lamp! Not just one thing?you get three things!"

...My April 1st column for SD Times is now online...

Dice, the terrible job board, has announced a \$100M IPO. Sigh. The answer to many-to-many social network problems lies, not with full mediation, but with semantically-meaningful hypermedia. In other words, semantic Webs (which I use only in the loosest sense of domain-specific tags). At the moment, this isn't apparent, with …

In a welcome about face, Microsoft has decided to make Expression Blend and Expression Web available in MSDN subscriptions. Soma Somasegar makes the announcement....Initially Microsoft was intending to separate out the new Expression design tools from the developer resources.

Source: Expression Web and Blend to join MSDN
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