The “Famous” Book Fight

So, I read Rory’s latest comic and laughed. A lot. However, I haven’t posted it because I figured anyone who’d be amused would’ve already seen it....

Larry O’Brien on WPF

Suddenly, I think Larry O’Brien is smart: “The book, in this case, is Chris Sells and Ian Griffiths’ ‘Programming Windows Presentation Foundation.’...

Bindows: Windows Implemented in AJAX

Holy User32 in a browser window, Batman! I don’t know what it’s like to use an app built this way, but looking at the samples blows me away…...

I’m really digging live.com

I’ve tried all the portal sites at one time or another (yahoo, google, etc), but none of them have ever stuck ’til now. Since I gave up on...

Mobile Movie Listing Sites Compared

On a recent mailing list discussion, folks posted a large number of URLs for mobile movie listing sites. Since searching for movies is one of the...

A Quote With Which To Kick Off The Year

“Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.“–Redd Foxx Happy New Year...

Dirty Publishing Secret: Indexes Suck

I hate to say it, but indexes are the one place where I skimp when writing a book. I go round and round on sentence structure, figures, story, flow,...

“Conjure our spirits in a magical language called Lisp”

Even the first 10 minutes of the 1st lecture of the MIT lectures on “Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs” is amazing. “In Computer...