Fog Creek Software Management Training Program

Joel Spolsky, who has written some of the smartest and most useful articles on software development done right in his Joel on Software blog, is also the CEO of Fog Creek Software. As CEO he recently posted an open invitation for would be software managers to apply for paid on the job training […]

Xcode 2 Blog

The Spouse, also known as Michael E. Cohen, has started a new blog IDE of the Tiger. Michael’s been writing code since the days of punch cards, and using Macs since they were Lisas. I suspect, given his professional interests in multimedia, QuickTime, and instructional software, that there will be some overlap between our blogs. […]

The Mac Xcode 2 Book Web Site

You can now read All About Dennis and Michael Cohen’s The Mac Xcode 2 Book here. Show Steve Jobs he’s not the boss of you, and buy a copy.

Women and WWDC

Dori is unhappy about missing the Webloggers’ dinner. There wasn’t a special invite list; Buzz issued a general invitation back in April. I think I saw it on Brent’s site.I’m sorry Dori wasn’t there; I would have liked to have seen other women bloggers there, or, better still, more women at WWDC. I always […]

Flash Woes

Bear with me while I engage in a controlled rant.
One of the more trying aspects of shopping this past holiday season was that, for one reason or another, I had to do most of it via the web. That’s not a problem, I shop a lot on the web anyway. But I kept being […]

.RSS

The thing that I’ve not seen any one, on either side of the .RSS/Echo issue mention is that whatever flaws .RSS may (or may not) have, it’s understandable by ordinary mortals, even Medievalists. Looking at the specs, especially the sample files, and a few people’s feeds, was enough for me to kind of figure out […]

Amazon Offers Web Services and Development Kit

The official press release is here, but basically Amazon has gone a step beyond XML support to opening up their API for full Web Services SOAP support. You can read the developer information here.
Since I am an Amazon Associate on my Celtic Studies Resources site (finding places to buy Celtic Studies scholarly works can be […]

Why Unicode Won’t Work

The SlashDot article on Spoofing with Unicode linked to this provocative essay about the inherent flaws in Unicode, especially in terms of supporting Asian languages. There’s some good background info there as well.

Commenting Code

There’s an interesting thread on SlashDot about when and how to comment code.
Lots of programmers seem to think that comments are a waste of time, but when I interview a programmer I always ask about how and when the programmer comments. I’ve been known to ask a programmer to walk through commented code, explaining what […]

The Smart Way to Create Standards

I’ve been working, off and on, in between writing about the Mabinogi, on some pieces about standards. This morning I saw one of the smartest things I’ve ever read about working with a group, on standards or, frankly, just about any collaborative project.
Dave Winer writes:
Idea #1 — Yield to others
First, everyone involved, hopefully not too […]

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