Thought I’d give a quick status update on how I’m doing with Movable Type, and talk about what I like, what I don’t like, and what my plans are for the site.
The good:
Movable Type has all of the features that I always wished I had written for my own blogging software. Comments, trackbacks, categories, the [...]
My friend Jef has written an HTTP server in JavaScript, just to illustrate its utility as a general purpose scripting language. His kung fu is good.
Today is finally the day when I migrate to Eclipse 3.1. It has been released for a few weeks, but I had to wait until the plug-ins that I use regularly were updated, specifically Subclipse. Some stream of consciousness thoughts on the process.
The distribution of Eclipse 3.1 is 105 megs. NetBeans 4.1 weighs in [...]
Joel Spolsky has some thoughts on what it means to hire the best programmers:
So, why isn’t there room in the software industry for a low cost provider, someone who uses the cheapest programmers available? (Remind me to ask Quark how that whole fire-everybody-and-hire-low-cost-replacements plan is working.) Here’s why: duplication of [...]
One topic that has been on my mind a lot for the past few months has been the notion of who bears risk. For example, Social Security is a system that insures people who have worked throughout their lives from living in abject poverty when they reach retirement age. The argument is whether the costs [...]
Bruce Schneier has the goods on the TSA’s Secure Flight program, which is designed to check whether airline passengers are on terrorist watch lists. Unfortunately, the program was expanded to take over the functions originally designed for the CAPPS-II program, which would assign some kind of risk score to every airline passenger based on a [...]
Talk about companies heading in different directions. I read this week that Microsoft and Google are suing each other over who gets to keep a particular employee on the payroll. At the same time, HP has laid off Alan Kay. Yeah, that Alan Kay. Chances are he’ll be able to get a job at Microsoft [...]
In this Slate dialogue, a point is raised that I think deserves further attention. Activist groups (conservative, liberal, and otherwise) have a financial incentive to manufacture as much outrage as possible during the Supreme Court confirmation process. The more worked up people get, the more money they shovel at these various groups in order to [...]
Anybody know why I get ye olde “500 Internal Server Error” from mt-comments.cgi from Movable Type whenever I post a comment? Is everybody else seeing that error as well?
Generally such errors mean that the script is not generating a Content-type header before sending printing out the actual content of the page. What’s probably happening is [...]
Like many developers, I’ve become test infected. When I’m creating a new API in Java, I generally try to write tests that provide good coverage before writing my code. And, I think more importantly, when anyone finds a bug in my code, I write a test to duplicate the bug before working on fixing it, [...]