Programming and politics

I started a small project using Ruby recently. It is indeed a Rails project, though the code I am writing for it has little to do with Rail...

Recently I installed iTunes 7.0 . One of the options it included was to install Apple Software Update. At first I thought, great just what I...

National League It's a shame that the Mets and Dodgers meet in the NLDS. The Mets were clearly the class of the NL this year, but stat...

Today was a sad day. No baseball. The regular season ended yesterday, and the postseason starts tomorrow. This postseason is bitter sweet, a...

I was reading this article from the San Jose Mercury suggesting that the San Francisco Giants should not re-sign Barry Bonds for next year....

According to former president Bill Clinton: all you need is ubuntu. I actually installed the latest version of Ubuntu on my home PC this w...

For about a week I've been running Windows Vista RC1 on my laptop. I had used the Beta 2 on my desktop machine. I was unable to use the ...

I decided this week that it was time to buy new running shoes. Most folks say buy new shoes every six months or every 500 miles, which ever ...

I've installed a couple of updates to widely used programs: Internet Explorer 7 RC1 , and iTunes 7.0 . IE7 RC1 I don't use IE6 muc...

One of my co-workers came to me with a familiar problem. He had class that was being rendered as XML. The class itself could have different ...

I read this interesting article about Windows Vista. Vista may well be more significant than the author realizes. It may well be the greate...

So I guess I should've posted this before the start of the regular season... but today's action did not change any of my predictions...

My wife started her own blog today. Apparently I wasn't doing a good enough job of blogging pictures of our kids , so she's going t...

I've been doing some research lately on SMS . At PocoPay, we had technology for sending SMS to our customers. For example, if you signed...

My last post reminded me of a comment a former colleague of mine once made. He accused me of being "anti-XSD." I found this an unu...

I recently was dragged into a JSON vs. XML debate. There are definitely some people out there with strong opinions on this matter. I'm...

I've been using Spring MVC for a variety of web applications. It really does have a lot of nice advantages over Struts making it one of...

I've been away for awhile, sidelines for medical reasons. I had a kidney stone that wound up requiring surgery. The surgery was laser li...

I've been playing fantasy football for more than ten years. I started playing with friends from college. In fact our fantasy football le...

Here's a great blog about a NY Times article on an amazing preacher. He refused to use his position as a religious leader to endorse po...