Programming and politics

Old farts weren’t the only ones making good music in 2008. The best of them was the debut by Vampire Weekend. This album took a little whil...

It has been a remarkable year for new music. Not just because there has been some good new music released this year, but because of who has ...

Yesterday I was driving home from Southern California, after spending the holidays with family. My wife was giving me updates on the Miami-N...

This is the first of two NFL posts. This is the happy one. My childhood team, the Miami Dolphins, amazingly made the playoffs yesterday by b...

Here are a few things I am attending/involved in that are coming up in January. Macworld 2009, January 5-9, Moscone Center (San Francisco) ...

Recently I pointed out how Scala has Golf built into it, in the form of the _. So of course it is fun to solve a Golf problem using Scala:...

In case you missed it, Python's BDFL a.k.a. Guido van Rossum filed some major complaints about Scala . After you read that, read a good...

There are two games from this season that provide insight into today's Florida vs. Alabama game. First is Florida vs. Georgia. The Bulld...

Yesterday was the much ballyhooed release of JavaFX. I was excited about this for a few reasons. First, I started following JavaFX back whe...

Yesterday I went to the Florida vs. FSU football game. I haven't had much recent, personal college football history... The last college ...

A few days ago I flew from San Jose back to my hometown, Panama City, Florida. To be accurate, I first flew from San Jose to Atlanta, and th...

This week I was at Adobe MAX. While there I picked up a DVD with a preview of Flex Builder 4 and Flash Catalyst (Thermo.) One thing of parti...

An associate of mine pointed out some fun programming puzzles on Facebook. This one was interesting to me. It was interesting because I thi...

Tonight at BASE, I had a rant about Scala constructors. So I'll just continue the rant here. Constructors seem great in Scala. At first....

I was driving home tonight and noticed a local Wienerschnitzel advertising a pastrami ... thing ... on a (hot dog) bun. This reminded of exa...

I've written a lot of articles for IBM over the last couple of years. I've covered a lot of topics. It was interesting for me to see...

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This year I voted by mail. It was very convenient. The state of California even sent me a nice little "I voted" sticker. So how di...

This week I have been speaking at EclipseWorld in Reston, VA. I have been talking about Ruby on Rails mostly, and a little session on iPhone...

AjaxWorld was this week, and it was interesting. I think the down economy is having an affect on everyone, but there were still a lot of int...