Development Adventures

I ran across a(nother) article today about jumping into clojure. It was full of misconceptions and half truths, but if it gets people into ...

Did problem #4 today. Find the largest product of 2 three digits that is a palindrome. This one wasn't too hard (given that I don't...

Problem 3; what's the biggest prime factor of some big #? I went a lot of ways here, but finally ended up with the following. First, I ...

I've started my journey down clojure land. 4clojure and Project Euler are my first goals. Started with project Euler. Here are my first ...

I've seen a lot of articles lately about women in IT, computer science classes, technical industries, etc.  The lack of them, the declin...

It was officially a holiday for me, so I didn't get any real work done.  That's unusual; if I'm home, I usually work.  Mostly of...

Was completely misunderstood.  By 2 people.  On 2 different circumstances.  Sometimes working from home sucks. Did unnatural things to our Q...

Installed ruby on our QA box.  Finally. Navigated treacherous object dependencies and got a bulk data generation script running well enough ...

As I was reading this BBC story, "How to solve the British maths problem?"[1] I was reminded of my numerous British friends and co...

I hate full text justification. It works ok for newspapers since their columns are not wide, and they typically do not use "big words...

I'm trying to learn Scala, and /lift/. The ultimate goal really IS to learn something, but as a way to accomplish that, I'm going t...

I first looked at Python around 1997, for reasons lost to my ever failing memory, but already being a rather big perl-head by then, I didn...

Some time ago, a company I've recently (1.75 years ago) left was bought by another. This all happened after I left, so it didn't af...

In eclipse, in the java editor, Ctrl-S (save) is RIGHT NEXT to Ctrl-D (delete line). I understand WHY they are, but it's a bad design al...

I was chatting with a coworker today about some company issues, and I had offhandedly mentioned a thought I've had over the past few yea...

What makes a good error message? As developers, we certainly see a lot of them, and they are almost always the first indication that Someth...