Multi-line comments considered harmful
Recently on the ruby-core mailing list, someone asked why Ruby doesn’t have multi-line comments....
Mandelbrot remembered
Like many other people, I first saw the Mandelbrot Set in an issue of Scientific American in 1985....
Wave goodbye
So, farewell then, Google Wave, perhaps the ultimate example (for now) of what happens when you let a bunch of software engineers design a product....
It's Time and Energy Wasting Time
Once again, it’s time for every clock in America to be messed with....
8001050F
As I’ve written before, date and time calculations are surprisingly difficult....
The case of the Null Empty Nothing
Most programming languages have a null value which is used to indicate the absence of a valid value....
RPM cheat sheet
The worst thing about commercial Linux is RPM....
Documentation as an indicator of code quality
I often have to shunt around Lotus Domino databases, as well as all kinds of log files and bundles of XML data....
Small, cheap and ubiquitous
WIRED magazine has finally noticed that the long term trend for technology is cheap, simple and ubiquitous....
Last night I dreamed of mainframes
This week saw the 40th anniversary of IBM CICS, the Customer Information Control System....