Category Archives: General
Tried Out OS X for a while
TheUI and Graphics: They nailed it. It is quite a good improvement over Nextstep and every other OS. No news here, everyone has been copying them for a while. It has the good ole’ NextSTEP style rendering as well… no … Continue reading
Screenshots of Ye Ole Nextstep
Quite an OS, ahead of its time: http://www.shawcomputing.net/resources/next/software.html
Open Letter to Microsoft – Open Source Visual Studio 6.0
I do a lot of Microsoft development. A lot. I use Visual Studio 6.0 to do that development. This is a product that came out on September 3, 1998. It was probably designed in 1995. I’m using a 10 year … Continue reading
DTrace
At work today, Tychay shared some of his excitement over DTrace. The PHP community is discovering the benefits of this system. I also had a discussion with another co-worker about this last Friday. So this is worthy of a blog … Continue reading
Funny Videos
Completely self-describing, funny stuff from the Jherr – Driving Sideways http://www.bpninc.com/evideo/videomachi.mov http://www.kkmime.org/ It’s funny because it’s true.
Blogging…why I do it.
I gotta make this sticky somehow, maybe I’ll put it in the links on the right. Anyways, sometimes I feel a bit self-conscious about blogging. That people who read this may wonder why I do this. Blogging is more for … Continue reading
I knew it…not
The other day, while glancing at the news, I saw that Bush was trying to support “Intelligent Design” in the schools. Immediately, I thought he must have meant, Frank Loyd Wright or IM Pei or Ray and Charles Eams. I … Continue reading
Mac vs. Windows
So lately, I’ve been thinking about both platforms. I’ve been thinking about switching from Win32 to the Mac OS X land. The best way to make the judgement is to use both and compare. Luckily, for a little while at … Continue reading