I dabble in the world of philosophy at times and one of the philosophical movements that I don’t participate in, but find interesting is existentialism. Experience is all that there is doesn’t suit me, but in the world of software development experience is all that there is.

Does your software do what it says it [...]

What makes sense in the aQuantive acquisition? Not much, the long and short of it is that Microsoft just spent a huge amount of money to do some saber rattling. You could probably guess that Microsoft is peeved to be out of the loop in the lucrative online advertising world. You could [...]

I’m a huge fan of Douglas Crockford, this video is well worth your time to watch or listen to in the background: Quality. This is a great story about software development history as well as problems that you might be able to avoid.

The first programming language I learned was Perl. Perl was easy to do many things with and it also allowed me to manipulate text strings. Except that instead of doing it the easy way I would often write very, very convoluted chunks of code in an attempt to get the data into or [...]

Apparently 2.5 days out of a year, if you add up the seconds, you’re waiting for slow loading websites. I don’t know where this number really comes from. I wouldn’t add of my total time for that, but I’m on broadband and don’t surf aimlessly. When I design a web page or [...]