Programming and politics

This happens to me a lot: Take a look at the stack trace that gets sent to Apple: So I think this is being caused because I set the storage ...

If you are an iPhone developer, you were probably excited about Apple revealing a beta of OS 3.0 and the corresponding beta of SDK 3.0. Ther...

Twenty-five years ago, football fans were eagerly awaiting the NFL draft. There wasn't the ESPN/Mel Kiper hype that we have today, but n...

I had a fun exchange on Twitter recently with @jamesiry and @codemonkeyism about how to hire developers. I think my thoughts on hiring are ...

The other day, I made a really dumb Tweet about Java collections. I tried to come up with an excuse for it, but there really was none. Thi...

Last week I wrote about a day of infamy, but did not get around to talking about this. I was too happy about President Obama following thro...

Today is a great day for America, and a day of infamy. Do you want the good news or the bad news first? The good news is that today is the b...

The Lift web framework hit its 1.0 release today . Major congratulations goes to the Lift team. I have been lucky enough to get to know Lif...

Well not quite, but spring training is here. My local teams, the Giants and A's, both play their first spring training game today. Tim L...

Dave Briccettit asked: What’s the Scala way for this type of read loop? My answer: import java.io._ import scala.io._ import scala.collectio...

Upgraded IntelliJ to 8.1 this morning. Launched it and got this: That lovely message box is 2891 pixels across. So wide, that you cannot eve...

Tonight was the monthly BASE meeting. Jorge did a great talk on Scala actors. Before the talk, Dick was talking about looking for a good ...

Web scale development is cache development. Oversimplification? Yes, but it is still true. Figuring out what to cache, how to cache it, and ...

Twitter recently created social graph APIs . You can get the friends or followers of a given user. This information was available in other w...

Do you remember the Phoenix Suns? Do you remember the team that played like it was 1979? Do you remember Steve Nash dishing out 20 assists a...

Just read about how pissed Cavs fans are that Mo Williams is not replacing Jameer Nelson in the All-Star Game . Seems most Cavs thought that...

I am lucky to live close to where I work. It's not totally luck. I used to live very far from where I worked, and all changes (changing ...

If you're lucky enough to experience my TwitStream lately, then you might have noticed that I've been doing some iPhone development...

Today I received a serial number for the highly regarded IntelliJ. The license was courtesy of the San Fran JUG , as a thank you for speakin...

All of America is upset about Wall Streets bonuses . Even The President is pissed . Guess what. All of America, including President Obama, i...