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I came across a number of web news reports that though unrelated indicate the massive technological changes that are occurring now and also going to sweep through our society over the coming years....
The Gephi blog has a post on the Egyptian political changes in relation to Mubarak: The Gephi dynamic visualization of the twitter relationships reminded me of the work we are doing on the MVX Object...
It’s just the way of the world, but clients and potential clients of software development often use particular wording in order to imply that some work should be very inexpensive to complete....
The machinations at Nokia are fascinating: When the previous CEO was regularly coming out with put downs targeting the Android platform, I was thinking “What planet is this guy on?”....
I purchased a Kindle DX and just got it today. The unboxing experience was interesting in that it had a few of the typical peel off tabs that are typical with gadgets and electronic equipment....
One of the blogs I read is written by Werner Vogels the CTO of Amazon. His latest blog post includes an excerpt from one of Roosevelt’s speeches which I found particularly inspiring: It is not the...
This is just a quick note so that web searches for a similar problem find a solution. Seemingly out of the blue, I started getting random errors of the form below when compiling C++ applications in...
The following excerpt is from a Pragmatic Programmers podcast with Robert Martin. The discussion is about Agile development, but I believe it applies to any software development work....
This post is a break from the usual software development heavy content and is about inline hockey. My son Benjamin was in the 11 and under age group representing Western Australia and played in the...
Listening to This Developer’s Life and enjoying it. The following quote from living legend Dan Bricklin (the co-creator of the first spreadsheet program Visicalc) is something I view as a truism....