I must admit that I’ve been a terrible blogger these past few months. I blame Twitter!   Now that fall is upon us, I’m going to try and write more than 140 characters on a somewhat regular basis. 

I hate to admit it but I’ve been running Vista on a desktop machine at home for the better part of the past 8 months. It has not been a terrible experience (High-end dual-core with 8 gigs of ram does help) but I’ve been looking for more. I’ve heard good things about Win7, and with ...

Until recently, the bulk of my writing was done on a Mac using Ecto.  I was looking for a suitable publishing tool for Windows and was directed towards Windows Live Writer. Short answer, it’s nice.  I’ve installed the 2009: Release Candidate and published to WordPress with no problems whatsoever. 

You know the drill. Signup for some random service on the internet Receive a confirmation email with your account information or Forget a password for some random service on the internet Receive an email with your current password In today’s day and age, I’m not aware of any good reason why we (the services) should ...

Guido van Rossum, of Python fame, has recently released a Django-based application that enables web-based code reviews… Rietveld. It supports any language and currently can hook into Subversion repositories. You can see it running on Google AppEngine. Check it out! Personally, I’m a big fan of Atlassian Crucible and have quickly come to realize the ...

Caught this over on JavaPosse Google Groups. Essentially, some bright fellows over in Japan have developed a bytecode->javascript compiler. There’s a demo floating around that took a Tetris (persumably AWT) implementation and has it running as Javascript in the browser. John Resig has the best overview of it that I’ve seen so far. There’s a ...

So it looks like the Facebook Chat service has finally started rolling out to my network (Facebook Chat has been mentioned previously). Not quite sure how I feel about it yet. I don’t really need yet another IM solution (beyond Twitter, MSN & Jabber/GTalk) so it’s very unlikely that I’m going to be consistently keeping ...

As an outsider (and a non-executive one at that) looking in, I can’t help but agree with Mark’s latest comments on CEO Pay. Obviously things are different in companies of 10,000+ employees and market caps north of $1 billion, perhaps that’s why I’ve been far more comfortable in start-up land. Put another way, every hired ...

The Secret Life of a DefaultTreeModel A good article if you’ve ever found yourself debugging rendering issues with tree tables. If only I had a nickel for every time I’ve seen the above problem…