Too bad they don’t carry Milli Vanilli on the iTunes Music store. I’ve got $3.96 burning a hole in my pocket and just thought of what I’d most like to spend it on. Girl You Know It’s True Baby Don’t Forget My Number Blame It On The Rain I’m Gonna Miss You
After 2-3 years of stagnation, My Yahoo! has finally done something interesting. They have added a hosted RSS aggregator feature to the site. For the time being, I’ll still probably stick to using like Radio Userland better, because it organizes articles by date (regardless of source) and My Yahoo! is very source-centric. However, I’m hopeful […]
I’ve been in more of a reading mood than a writing one recently. Just finished reading Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser Apache Cookbook by Ken Coar and Rich Bowen In the middle of reading The Art of UNIX Programming by Eric S. Raymond Just starting to read Refactoring by Martin Fowler (of the original […]
In the past month I’ve seen at least 3 messages on the development email lists at work asking questions about developing multi-threaded applications. From a software engineering standpoint, this troubles me. I’ve always thought that multi-threaded apps in C/C++ are simply too difficult for most engineers to understand. There’s too much non-determinism, too many race […]
Today (thanks to Jeremy and Rasmus) I learned about a tool that I never knew I needed but now can’t live without: Mozilla LiveHTTPHeaders. I’ve been debugging HTTP for years using trusty text-based tools like telnet and nc, but today a quasi-technical person stopped by my cube to ask for help with a caching problem […]