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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

Paranoid, anal, whatever I was talking with M today about a billing problem he encountered with his mobile phone. Seems there was a no...

First Job M y first job -- after graduating with a degree in Computer Science -- was at the O Corporation. O is an abbreviation that prot...

Stupid White Man F at and stupid is no way to go through life, son. Perhaps the most serene irony to be found in Hollywood is that th...

The Seven Stages of Targeted Marketing T he seven stages of targeted marketing are described in this brief and compelling article direct...

The Beale Codes " I t was in the month of January, 1820, while keeping the Washington Hotel, that I first saw and became acquainted w...

Quine = Self-Reproducing Code I received a note from AG regarding self-reproducing code. "I presume by now you have seen a kazill...

Van.. Hell... zing... T he Filthy Critic has posted a priceless review of the new movie Van Helsing . Enjoy it for the obscene language...