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I watched an InfoQ video of Barbara Liskov at OOPSLA this evening.  At the end of her talk in a look at the challenges looking forward she ...

In functional languages, tuples are pretty much a requirement.  Of the functional languages I’ve used, including Erlang and T-SQL, tuples ar...

The first “homework assignment” of Dr. Erik Meijer’s functional programming course on Channel 9 was to write quicksort using C# (or VB) fun...

Don’t count your chickens before they hatch.  Let’s call that adage the “count-no” principle.  I promise that will be funny later. The com...

Here’s a Powershell script to generate the enumeration elements of an XML Schema simpleType restriction.  The first command loads the .NET A...

This is the error that was reported after the HP installer forced me to restart my computer to continue installation…

Today a co-worker was attempting to edit a file, and TFS reported that it was “locked for check-out by [me] in workspace …”. I didn’t have...

Spent some time this evening tracking down the various component technologies of the myriad cloud offerings out there.  Here’s the result.  ...

NEBULA is a Cloud Computing environment developed at NASA Ames Research Center, integrating a set of open-source components into a seaml...

gci -recurse -force | ? { $_.GetType() -like 'System.IO.DirectoryInfo'} |      select-object Name,@{Name="size"; Exp...

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. -Chinese Proverb I purposely did not title this post “ The 3 Fallacies of RESTful...

It occurred to me this morning that many software development principles seem to emerge from the rigorous application of the following princ...

Please consider this a sort of layman’s disambiguation page. The classic “80-20 rule” refers to a Pareto distribution.  The thin distribut...

I’ve written relatively extensively on the topic of replacing enum constructs with classes , so I won’t rehash the topic. Instead, I’d like ...

Upon the day mankind's children ask Who it was made their world intelligible, Those who set about the grand task of creating ...

This is a great talk at a Ruby conference by Jim Weirich about his attempt to frame all object-oriented design (OOD) principles as special c...

TechCrunch called Google Squared the imminent Cain to WolframAlpha’s Abel . Dare Obsanajo warns Wikipedia to beware the ides of March , cast...

It’s the evening before the official start of the Microsoft’s annual IT conference, TechEd.  In 2009 we find ourselves in sunny, yet cool, L...

What's a friend on MySpace, Facebook, and Orkut?  If you have five hundred friends, are they really friends?  These are the main reasons...

This morning started with keynotes, though there didn't seem to be a theme beyond "here is who we could get to come and talk."...