So, after Christmas and New Year’s Eve I am on parental leave until October 2007. Nine months is a long time in the technology industry so I am planning some projects to keep up-to-date. My project list is getting longer every day but for some reason no-one is taking it seriously. My wife tells me […]

I have been seeing more and more information on how bigger screens increase productivity of software developers (or professional computer users in general). The latest entry is by Martin Fowler in “How do you improve the productivity of software developers?“

“Error: division by zero” is a commonly seen error for inexperienced programmers. The BBC reports that Dr. James Anderson, of the University of Reading, has finally conquered the problem of dividing by zero. His new number, which he calls “nullity” solves the 1200 year old problem that niether Newton nor Pythagoras could solve, the problem […]

My colleague Niklas nagged me for not having disabled the caps lock key on my MacBook Pro. I was a bit disoriented at first but coming to think of it, I haven’t used the caps lock key since I got the MBP back in April.
This made me think about which keys I actually use. Being […]

Google’s Code search is a great way to spend an evening. Indexing a hefty amount of source code reveals anger, frustration and hate. Some favourites:

I hate Java
Java sucks
Python sucks
I hate Microsoft

I hate DTDs (that is REXML by the way…)

Interestingly, searching for “Ruby sucks” does not return any matching documents…

My colleague Niklas Lindström has put together a list of programming languages for cineasts. Ruby is Jackie Chan which, I guess, is a pretty much spot on: asian, agile, get things done but with poor support for european languages.
Java is Richard Gere which pretty much says it all. His complexion is in decay from being […]

Here is a cool thing which I didn’t hear of until today. Amazon provides a service where you can upload a machine image (think VMWare), deploy it to as many instances you need and pay Amazon 10 cents for every hour you use it and 20 cents for each Gb data transfer. This will allow […]