Earlier today, I had the great privilege to listen to Joshua Bloch’s invited talk here at OOPSLA. For those not familiar with Joshua, he is a Chief Java Architect at Google, formerly a Distinguishe...

I have been to several flavors of VSLive among other development conferences. This is the first OOPSLA conference I’ve ever been to. Which one do I prefer? OOPSLA, by a mile! You’re probably askin...

So, yesterday I was going to end up going to either the SOA and Web Service Best Practices discussion or the Creating an Informative Workspace discussion. Ultimately, I ended up sitting in the Dyna...

Having just recently installed Vista RC2 as my main operating system on my laptop, I resolved to give Internet Explorer a fair shake to try and win me back as a user with version 7. IE lost that b...

Last night, we (myself and several people from my company) flew into Portland for the OOPSLA 06 conference. This is my first OOPSLA conference, and I have to say that there is a lot of information...

After being infected with a crappy piece of spyware, I took the plunge and repaved my machine with RC2 of Windows Vista. As it turns out, that may have been a futile exercise, since rumour has it t...

From Eric Gunnerson: I call that phenomena “Scrumbut”. It shows up in the following way: “We’re doing Scrum but…” our sprints are 12 weeks long… we do two normal sprints and one b...

Recently, I’ve become very intrigued with Ruby on Rails and how it can be used to VERY quickly develop very nice web applications. I’ve had conversations with other people about why I would want t...

This came through my email box the other day, and I found it funny enough to share… Sometimes, technology isnt everything. :) A cowboy was herding his cows in a remote pasture when suddenly a b...

Bill Pierce has been putting together what looks to be a fantastic framework for building ASP.NET applications using Fowler’s Supervising Presenter pattern, using some neat features of the Castle I...