Programming and politics

I saw this post on TSS this morning. I read it, mostly because I like Seam so I wanted to see what was new with it. I was particularly plea...

I've been using Gaim to access both my Yahoo Messenger and Google Talk contacts. However, the Yahoo email notification have stopped work...

I just read this Java generics puzzler from Pure Danger Tech . I have felt exactly this pain many times before. The decision to erase types ...

I don't know what's going on with Netflix lately, but they've become noticeably faster. Maybe it's because of the competitio...

I've been doing some development on the Mac lately. The tool that I've been most interested in is Dashcode , but I've also been ...

I have to enter the echo chamber and write about this article that was also mentioned on Slashdot . I had to write about this because it re...

I found myself using Safari for the first time in ... a long time. I have to say that it has some definite speed advantages over Firefox on ...

Being from Florida, I am an Orlando Magic fan. I haven't been too interested in basketball the last few years, but I am very glad that O...

I pressed the "new" menu on Word 2007, and saw "blog post" as an option. So I had to give it a try. Authenticating with ...

For some reason, Outlook 2007 breaks Funambol sync. The plugin (which just gives you a little button in Outlook to launch the sync program) ...

I decided to go ahead and do Python versions of the programming assignments. I updated the ATM and Text Manipulation assignments to includ...

Here's a disappointing quote from Hillary Clinton : First family that comes and says 'I want to send my daughter to St. Peter's ...

I've been tutoring a friend learning Java. Each week they have a different assignment designed to help them learn a particular concept. ...

There's an open call for Vista questions on MSDN Channel 9 . This was posted by Microsoft programmer/Technical Evangelist Charles, so t...

I went to a Microsoft Vista/Office launch event last week. I really wanted to hear about XAML support in Vista/Office. I got to hear a littl...

Now that was a heckuva Super Bowl. Well, at least the first quarter. It's hard to remember a more eventful quarter of football, particul...

It seems like every time that I go to the Yahoo! home page, it says I have new email -- but I don't. Notice that the Mail tab says I hav...

One of my favorite blogs to read is FIRE JOE MORGAN . There's always some funny and insightful rants against baseball talking heads (suc...

I was recently helping somebody who is taking "beginning Java" kind of class. It's interesting to see Java as a first language...

I used to be a big horse racing fan. I started going to the track while I was in college. Pasadena is home to Santa Anita race track, arguab...