There was a time, oh, maybe 20 years ago or so, when I really wanted to write the next great thing. A new drafting tool, maybe, or a new software tool for managing software versions, or something… Partially I wanted to come up with something because it was intellectually challenging, and partially so I could [...]
I blog for a variety of reasons. To practice my writing and communications skills. To vent frustration in a safe place. For public intellectual exhibitionism. Today I blog to remember something I had forgotten. A design pattern, generally speaking, is a common pattern that we use to solve a problem. Unfortunately that observation has been [...]
Here at Yahoo! (and you can tell I work for Yahoo! by adding the damned exclamation point–the company name is “Yahoo!”, not just “Yahoo”) I’m finding myself traveling about once a week to the mothership where I meet with many people to help coordinate and manage a large scale integration project. And every evening I [...]
Back in 1987 or so, a small company put together an interesting development tool on the Macintosh called “LightspeedC”, which was later renamed “Think C” for legal reasons. What made this tool exciting is that rather than using a series of ‘makefiles’ and command-line tools for building your application, the development environment was integrated into [...]