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Saturday, June 12, 2004

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Easter Eggs, Part Deux L oyal reader B wrote me the following note in response to my earlier article regarding the Alpha Five version 1 Ea...

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In praise of continue I 've read some fairly daunting software engineering manuals that discourage -- or even ban altogether -- the ...
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Tuesday, June 08, 2004

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Vacation I will be on hiatus for a few days. Vacation. Beach. Sand. Sun. Kids fighting and complaining. Actually have read seve...
Friday, June 04, 2004

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Easter Egg! F or those unfamiliar with the term "Easter Egg" -- as it applies to software -- it means a hidden feature that ca...
Thursday, June 03, 2004

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Tales of Alpha T here were a lot of benefits to working for a mass-market software company. Some of them were obvious. And some weren&...
Wednesday, June 02, 2004

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$970,000 I t's amazing how money is relative. When I was growing up, my Dad served as Treasurer for a volunteer organization. When...
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Tuesday, June 01, 2004

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This will be interesting I n preparation for heading off on vacation this summer, I've configured my blog to accept email posts. Bl...
Sunday, May 30, 2004

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Logic for Licensing H aving some fun designing and implementing the BadBlue server's new licensing scheme. In a nutshell, the Excel...
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Saturday, May 29, 2004

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I n a recent JOS post, an anonymous poster asked: Where the heck are all of the good software engineering jobs? With good software compan...
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Friday, May 28, 2004

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J akob Nielsen speculates on personal computing power in the year 2034: ...According to Moore's Law, computer power doubles every 18 ...
Thursday, May 27, 2004

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Alpha Frisbee Golf, part 17 P ete's blog stirred a bunch of fun memories. He published a map of the Alpha Software frisbee golf c...
Wednesday, May 26, 2004

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Affiliated I was talking with Ted McConnell several years ago about search engine optimization. Ted is the head of P&G's IT Re...
Monday, May 24, 2004

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Lemon Squares I think the first person that I grabbed for the Alpha Software development team was Gerry Polucci, who is now the preside...
Sunday, May 23, 2004

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Unifying HTML and Javascript H ave been working on a bunch of new features for BadBlue that relate to Excel collaboration. The gist o...
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Saturday, May 22, 2004

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Practical Jokers I left the O Corporation after receiving a job offer from PMC. PMC was a division of a Fortune 500 company that speci...
Friday, May 21, 2004

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How Zaxxon Taught Me to Program I don't know many of you remember the arcade game Zaxxon. I do know that seeing Zaxxon for the fir...

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The Pantheon H e's alive! A.J. Quinnell, among the finest adventure novelists I've ever read, recently emerged in public on a f...
Thursday, May 20, 2004

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Return-codes vs. Exceptions, Part 228 P ete's blog had a good critique of my last blog entry on return-codes versus exceptions. Th...
Wednesday, May 19, 2004

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Return-codes vs. Exceptions, Part 129 T here's been an ongoing debate in the software development world regarding whether return-cod...
Tuesday, May 18, 2004

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A bald-faced bug A ny developer has their "toughest bug they ever cracked" story. I'm no different. Those of you who k...
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