Five years ago, I jumped the gun, and declared U2's "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb" a great album, and a potential classic. Looking back now, although it's still an album full of some amazing pop songs, my susceptibility to hyperbole got the best...
I don't normally write general posts referring to other blogs, but for a while I've wanted to give a shout out to Penelope Trunk over at her Brazen Careerist blog.
Anyone who's familiar with her writing is likely aware of how strongly people react to...
Last night at the Fairfield / Westchester .NET User Group in Stamford, CT, Microsoft's Peter Laudati brought uncommon clarity to his presentation of Microsoft's AJAX framework. Peter is a top-notch presenter, and he proved why he's a Developer Evangelist for the NY /...
As you may have read, I've been testing several "key launcher" type of utilities for about two weeks so far. Although a key feature (sorry -- no pun intended) of several of these utilities is an "autotext" feature, this is the least of...
Programmers are a curious bunch. We'll spend hours or days working on a solution for ourselves that'll save us mere minutes. Part of it is just the challenge of stripping down tasks to their bare minimum, even if the total time we...
I recently finished reading Mark Hurst's new book, Bit Literacy, and I definitely recommend it. It's a quick read, but it's one of those books you should revisit time and again. Seth Godin of The Dip fame (also highly recommended) calls this...
