What’s your programmer personality type?

programmer personality typeDHSBYou’re a Doer.You are very quick at getting tasks done. You believe the outcome is the most important part of a task...

LoadWithPartialName, I miss you…

When you make a call to LoadWithPartialName in .NET 2.0, you get the standard compiler error that you’re using an obsolete function: The problem is,...

A really bad optimization

I always knew that the scientists would optimize away sending the matter when all they need is to send the state: “A team of physicists has...

Microsoft Surface

the Microsoft Surface web site“““...

Why do we pick on journalism majors, so?

Here’s another one: For example, if we had had a background in journalism, we might have used one-based indexing instead of zero-based indexing...

Sometimes I crack myself up

I forgot until the copy edit review process that I’d dropped this gem into a footnote: On August 4th, 1997, the world’s oldest person so far,...

Heard in the halls at RailsConf 2007

I was passing a young, blue-haired photographer-ess who said the following to a gentleman she wanted to smile for a picture: “Just think about...

Dogfood — it ain’t just for dogs

a new way to format text for online reading...