Building an environment to develop software takes time. Lots of time. If you gave me a fresh Macbook and said “Go!” it would take me nearly a week to get all my environments set up correctly. Sure, there are smart people using Chef to get around this and automate everything. This is a good idea [...]
Recently it seems like every time I have an idea for a useful web tool someone has built it already. With OS X Leopard coming out soon I thought using the new text-to-speech system to make a web page reader would be cool. done! Wouldn’t it be great if you could convert a wordperfect document [...]
Sit still long enough and eventually someone will think you’re dead. The software industry moves so fast that “normal” industry just looks like it’s standing still. How many revolutionary new toilet, shovel, doorknob, or umbrella designs have you seen hit the US market in the past decade? In order for software engineers to stay current [...]
CNN is reporting on people in London being arrested for using an open wireless network. I’m not sure about London, but in every major city in the US it’s hard not to be in range of at least 2 wireless networks at any given time. Can this really be considered a crime? These people are [...]