Wonder what programming will be like 100 years? Here’s an article that theorizes about it. There’s a fairly interesting Slashdot discussion about it (and here’s my $.02 about it).

Posted on April 11th, 2003 by admin
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I’m now in multi-tasking mode. I’m trying desperately to get the PNC project out the door, so I can start the full time position ASAP, but PNC is doing their best to prevent that. 99.85% of the development work is finished, but it seems as if there may be some issues with some of the […]

Posted on April 7th, 2003 by admin
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The Mozilla folks are releasing a new email client, called Minotaur. Yay! Outside of the Mac (I used the included Mail client), I’ve been searching for a good email client. On Windows, I tried desperately to find something other than Mozilla, since kitchen-sink feature mentality makes it a lumbering memory hog. I’ve been using it […]

Posted on March 26th, 2003 by admin
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Tim Bray, one of the original authors of the XML spec, has this bit on his site about why writing programs to parse and generate XML sucks. It’s an interesting read if you like this sort of stuff, and it includes links to other disgruntled programmer rants.

Posted on March 18th, 2003 by admin
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