Bruce Eckel’s post on Java UI the web and Flex has reopened my eyes to flex. He points to flex.org which looks like a great place for me to restart.
I was initially really excited about Flex. My company sent me to Macromedia’s conference in 2004 (in New Orleans) to learn about […]
I found SoundManager 2 on ajaxian today. I’ve been looking for a way to add little mp3 players to a page without having to learn flash. This might work great for my church’s website.
Yesterday (or lasterday as my son calls it) was Milton Friedman Day. Here’s a link to his tv series Free to Choose.
I’m looking into best practices for code reviews. I ran into this site offering a free book about peer code review. The book is put together by a vendor of peer code review software. Of course the conclusions support the product they sell but there might be some good ideas in it […]
They don’t advertise this but Amazon has a 30-day price guarantee - they’ll reimburse the difference in any price drops within 30 day period.
I just bought a USB hub and I see today that the price dropped 16 bucks! I’m giving them a call at their super secret customer service number: 1-800-201-7575.
To get a bench that makes everyone happy, you must build an automatic bench-making machine; help clients define their precise hopes for their bench; translate those hopes into instructions the bench-making machine understands; and then press the “Make” button.
From an article about Charles Simonyi by Scott Rosenberg.
I think I’m going to get Scott Rosenberg’s new […]
The increased power of the hardware, together with the perhaps even more dramatic increase in its reliability, made solutions feasible that the programmer had not dared to dream about a few years before. And now, a few years later, he had to dream about them and, even worse, he had to transform such dreams into […]
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