For a few years, I've been a happy subscriber to Musicmatch Universal, a system that gave me on-demand streaming of a sizeable music catalog. Musicmatch also had a \$.99 song-purchase facility from which I bought a few songs. Although I've always hated the Musicmatch player (bloated, self-updating, etc.) I was …

I'd rather hang out with John Hodgman. I'd rather get a C++ GUI Programming Guide.  

Paul... uh... NoLastName has an excellent post on silver bullets and functional programming. He cites studies, makes logical connections... why, it's hardly a blog post at all!

Anyway, I starting writing a comment, but it grew and grew, so I am posting it here instead. Read his post first....

You …

I wish I could draw. I wish I could use tools to make my hideous drawings into acceptable drawings.

This guy can draw and can use tools to make his sketches into better drawings.

I wish I could learn something from this guy.

In comments to my previous post, Wesner Moise says:

• given today's components, "why build vi?";
• the difficulty arising from software state "is a solved problem in functional programming"; and
• suggests that the advances in graphics and networking that I'd acknowledged amount to a silver bullet.

I'm afraid he's missing the …

I'm going out on a limb, I know, but I'm going to say that I don't think NASA will be ready to begin construction base on the moon in the year 2020 and, darn it, I know I shouldn't speculate wildly like this, but I'm going to say that when …

Wesner Moise quickly reviews Brook's "No Silver Bullets" assertion and claims "[t]hat assertion turns out to be pure nonsense, amply disproven by numerous advances in IDEs, languages, frameworks, componentization over the past few decades."

I couldn't disagree more. While the cumulative effects have given us more than an order …

Apparently, the next version of Office is going to be 14, embracing the triskedecaphobic convention of buildings in skipping the sp-o-o-o-k-y ramifications of, you know, counting.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but when you get to the point where, despite your worldwide hegemony on office documents …

Things are beginning to look up for me being able to do some XNA-based projects in the new year. I need a couple realizable games to tackle. I have one designed that I'll never be able to get approved (it's called "Fanaticize me!" I think I'd get in trouble even …

Backseat Playground is a research project that developed a GPS-based game for kids. It seems more like a (great) storytelling system more than a game. Basically, it uses the GPS and location-awareness to introduce game elements, e.g., when it sees that you're driving over a bridge, it presents you …