Programming and politics

Earlier today, I read this interesting article about the growth of web pages . In short, average web page size has tripled in the last five ...

Here is my schedule. I will probably miss a few of these, that always seems to happen. In particular, I may have to miss the opening day(5/6...

Earlier today I solved Problem 31 on Project Euler . The problem is to find the number of ways of making change for 2 British pounds (or 200...

Today TechCrunch "reported" that Blaine Cook has left Twitter . I had the pleasure of interviewing Blaine and his fellow Twitter d...

IBM published my first Scala article today. It's on using Scala to work with XML. It was a lot of fun to write about Scala. I am very l...

Last week my oldest son, Michael, Jr. was in a musical production at his preschool. Of course we videotaped it so we could share it. This wa...

I am very excited about the NBA playoffs, and for one very simple reason... Go Magic! I went to my first Magic game before they had played a...

Yesterday eBay won an award at the O'Reilly MySQL conference . Congratulations to the Chris Kasten's team. Chris also did a presenta...

A lot of folks think that Barack Obama has really shot himself with his comments about "bitter" Americans: "It's not surp...

There has been a lot of excitement this week about the Google App Engine, and it deserves the press. Most people are comparing it to the Ama...

On Sunday, I took my kids to the Oakridge Mall . We often go there on Sundays to get ice cream and to play at the indoor playground there. T...

I noticed that the Twitter ActionScript API was a bit out of date to say the least. I had to update it for a small project I was playing ar...

It's almost a week into the baseball season, and I haven't written about it at all! I am always psyched when baseball starts. This y...

Earlier this week, I solved another problem from Project Euler . This was #26 . Here is the description: A unit fraction contains 1 in the...

This is a big year. Both IE and Firefox will release new versions this year. That hasn't happened ... ever? IE8 had its first beta, whe...

A few weeks ago, I watched Guy Kawasaki's interview of Steve Ballmer at MIX . Kawasaki gave Ballmer a hard time about Vista. It made me ...

I have written a lot of articles for IBM over the last couple of years. Most recently I got a chance to write about "my day job" i...

A friend of mine got the following email: Dear Parent of Chris, We're pleased to inform you that your teenager has registered with us an...

Ever since details of Silverlight 2.0 came out, I planned on re-doing my stocks app using it. This is an app that I first wrote for a GWT t...

Some folks pointed out that the JsonViewer installer was complaining about being on the wrong version of AIR. That was because I wrote it b...