Category Archives: programming

Census 2: More Than Just A Pretty Graph

December 16, 2008 – 8:59 am

Numbers without context are lies waiting to be repeated.

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Notes To A Future Self: Getting Productive On WinXP

December 8, 2008 – 2:15 pm

Windows XP is truly a horrid desktop OS, particularly if you’re a programmer. The default install contains roughly nothing useful, and even getting a development environment going requires grabbing the likes of cygwin, Visual Studio, and a zillion patches from Microsoft. The truly dispiriting thing, though, is how badly cmd.exe still sucks. I fully admit [...]

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delegate(), delegate(), delegate()

October 10, 2008 – 4:50 pm

My MBP batteries keep dying after about a year (each). I usually have 2 that I tote around with me, and each tends to be good for 1.5-2hrs of actual work. This means that I tend not to be able to work through a cross-country flight, and particularly not if I need a VM for [...]

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“Action Oriented Programming”

October 9, 2008 – 9:40 am

It’s good to be back in SF after a pretty hectic week in Boston for Dojo Developer Days and The Ajax Experience. There’s a lot to say about them, which hopefully I’ll get to in a longer post. Our first DDD event under Pete‘s excellent leadership was a success and Dojo and SitePen very well [...]

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Harmony Fallout

August 15, 2008 – 1:33 am

Lets end the silly meme that “Adobe lost” or that “Microsoft won”. The game has hardly begun and it won’t be settled in a standards body anyway.

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