Programming and politics

It's been a long time since I've blogged. I've had a good reason. My wife and I had our second child on November 17. We had lot...

The big news in football this week has been the suspension of Terrell Owens. The whole thing kind of reminds me of the steroid controversy ...

This morning I voted in the California Special Election. It was a pleasant experience. There was a poll at the school next to my house, so ...

     I recently re-did the PocoPay welcome page. It now shows an invoice, similar to a monthly statement like you would get with a credit c...

    A couple of years ago, I read a great article by Allen Hollub called " Why getter and setter methods are evil ." If you'v...

I'm writting this blog using Flock . There's been a lot of hype leading up to the beta release of Flock. It's been billed as We...

This past Thursday night I flew to Seattle. I was there until Friday evening when I flew back home to San Jose. Why was I in Seattle? Well ...

I was pretty surprised to hear about Oracle buying Innobase, makers of MySQL’s InnoDB engine. I’ve used MySQL/InnoDB many times over the yea...

(Anybody get the Mork reference?) In 2001 my wife bought me the first-generation iPod as a Christmas present. At the time we weren’t marrie...

I recently added some AJAX bits to the PocoPay website. It was surprisingly easy, especially with the help of a great article on IBM’s dev...

     I love tennis. I started playing when I was very young because my two sisters played. I started getting up early to watch Wimbledon whe...

     I shouldn’t complain about being frustrated with the hurricane relief efforts on Louisiana and Mississippi. After all, I didn’t lose my...

I grew up in Panama City, Florida. I’ve been through a lot of hurricanes. So I had a chill go down my back last Saturday night, when I ...

There was a recent report about the US “falling behind” other countries in terms of broadband use. This has sparked a lot of interest and m...

Beta Stuff from Microsoft A lot of people like to criticize Microsoft, and I must admit that I enjoy partaking in that, too. However, I use ...

Spring I've been doing a lot of work lately with the Spring Framework. I'm still a little undecided about dependency injection as a ...

More Supreme Court Decisions The Supreme Court has been busy lately. There's a couple of rulings that I wanted to write about. Kelo v. N...

New Music The past two months has seen a lot of new music from well known artists. I did a long review of the new Nine Inch Nails CD. Here...

Raich v. Ashcroft Decision The long awaited decision arrived this week. I was definitely disappointed, but not very surprised by the decisio...

Apple and Intel Yes it's the big news in the tech world. Apple is switching to Intel CPUs. It's a pretty shocking turn of events. It...