The Fate of New Computers in My House
Originally posted 2008-12-12 07:27:04 In recent months, two computers in my home reached the ends of their useful lives. The first was the HP desktop that my children use. They’ve loaded so many game...
Category: Ablog
Why SWT?
Originally posted 2004-05-20 12:44:34 I recently attended my first Java Users’ Group (JUG) meeting. My interest in belonging to a JUG has coincided with a renaissance in the previously moribund local JUG, so I...
Baby Names
Originally posted 2005-06-16 04:49:45 Naming babies has always caused my wife and me angst, and we had to do it five times. I wish we’d found The Baby Name Wizard’s NameVoyager to help guide...
Treo 650 and Smart Phones
Originally posted 2006-02-13 04:58:27 I’ve used a PDA since 2000. I started with the Handspring Visor Deluxe, later adding the VisorPhone to it. I graduated to a Treo 180, which I used until the...
Alpha Geek
Originally posted 2006-06-22 16:09:47 I think I’ve found Alpha Geek. He’s one of the Unix sysadmins where I work. He hacks. He tinkers. He solves problems I can’t fathom. He does things like write...
No Fluff Just Stuff 2007 Orlando, Day Three
Originally posted 2007-09-11 13:05:45 Day three started with Bruce Tate, Ruby, and Rails. Tate isn’t entertaining nor dynamic (a la Scott Davis), but his presentation skills suffice and his material is excellent. Leading Java...
The Elite Eight Development Principles
Originally posted 2009-04-18 03:11:31 As a management team, we recently crafted and presented a list of development principles for our developers to follow. The goal was to provide vision and direction, not to dictate...
Kudos to fetchmail
Originally posted 2004-06-25 11:57:35 My e-mail was broken. Irretrievably broken. I knew I had messages out there, out in the ether, but I couldn’t pull them down–not using Thunderbird under Windows XP, nor the...
Fun with Amazon
Originally posted 2005-06-17 07:47:29 I came across this blog entry that talks about a web site that allows you to type in a keyword search. It then searches Amazon using that keyword, and builds...
HIMSS 2006 Day 1
Originally posted 2006-02-13 05:12:31 The HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society) 2006 Conference kicked off in San Diego with a reception last night. I flew out from Jacksonville, FL, yesterday morning with my...