Craig Moffett of Bernstein Research spelt an astonishing report gentled And Straight off for the News…The Emperor Has No Clothes”. If you can catch a copy, interpret it. Starting with the unsatisfying but waited news that journalism is no longer a service consumers want to pay for, he travels on to the problems presenting Internet [...]
May 29, 2008
Life Calculus
Yesterday my coworkers redecorated my office. Pictures in this blog entry are photos of their work. Funnily enough, I felt myself quite appreciative of their act of vandalism. Today is my 40th birthday. Like most other days, I started by taking the air the dog and doing a To-Do list. Still, today’s list has a [...]
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Quaker votes
Jerry (no blog) has been evidencing us all about a process they use for consensus [link from Michael ] building in some standards meetings… evidently the Quaker vote is treated everyone voting on each item as one of: a) Preferb) Can acceptc) Can’t live with The idea being that fair people will more rapidly come to [...]
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Approaching Gigs
In July I will be paying a keynote address at GUADEC , the one-year GNOME conference, being maintained this year in Istanbul. In September I will be addressing once more at the Business of Software conference, being kept this year in Boston. And lastly, for something completely unlike, don’t omit the Jam Session at Tech-Ed [...]
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Language parsing and compiler design doesn’t have to be hard, but boy this book truly sucks!
How’d you like that for an opening up title? Did it seize your attention? Hell, your studying this far so I hazard it did. The book I’m riveting on hither is Work up Your Own.NET Language and Compiler and delight, don’t click the link and so run purchase it. I don”t care about the 50 [...]
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Reserve judgement lest thou be passed judgment overly…
After positing my last post (rant), I re-taken it and had a thought pass off. Perhaps I besides should depict humility and read the affirmative view that the developers of these projects in truth did have good reasons for their reinventions and innovations. Perchance someplace in this world is a developer considering honest-to-goodness code that [...]
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Specifying the Citing Assembly
Suppose you’re debugging your application and you realise that version 1.0 of an assembly is being charged when you intended it should be version 2.0. Where is the reference to 1.0 coming from? The well-fixedest way to regain out is to view the Fusion log for this bind. If the version 1.0 assembly was successfully [...]
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Working large business problems in our minuscule toolbox application. A use case for Project Distributor.
Project Distributor: Introduction to our staggered web service modelSo Darren and I have assigned in about a month at present on the Project Distributor website. We are begining to progress to that decisive point where the site is pretty coolheaded, we have plenty of users, we are thinking of operating out of the permissible bandwidth [...]
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There can be only if one… with data
Sean & Scott [fixated link]: The example you yielded is outstanding, although I would advise something a little more robust, specifically you believably desire to take into account data to pass between the already escaping instance and the newfangled one made (this takes into account you to mobilise the command line arguments). I pent an [...]
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Career history
Taking “On Going a Leader” has been really interesting, more often than not because it intimates that a central differentiator of leaders is the vision that leaders allow for, while others are contented to be aimed. Interestingly I have been passing a lot of time at work stressing to see what I should be stressing [...]
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