You should never ask a geek what they are doing. Why? Well let us say for the sake of argument that you are not a geek. You are walking around and you see someone you know. They are a known geek. Let us also assume that the geek is using a computer. Now here are [...]
Test-driven development (TDD) has been seen as an aspect of the Extreme Programming (XP) methodology since the rapid growth of XP mind-share in the early 2000s. This view has begun to change as more developers are trying TDD even without a commitment to XP. Here I’ll talk about just a few of the important things [...]
In my Why all development will move to the Mac entry I identified several reasons I think the Mac will become the dominant platform of the future. Now more evidence as Wilkes University is moving to all Apple hardware. Read the article in Computerworld. They apparently will dual boot Windows, but the head of the [...]
I mentioned Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences a few posts ago. I just finished reading the book this weekend so I thought I’d give my final impression of it.
After a period of time when other Maurice Careys were at the top of the Google search, I have returned. At one point I held the top spot due to my frequent posts on a Linux user group. Now my website holds the top position. This of course is not exactly a SEO coup. How [...]
It isn’t something I think about much but today I was a little astonished when I realized the Mac mini has been running for about 18 months. Not continuously. I did shut it down for about six hours once when I upgraded the memory at a friends house. Another time it was down for about [...]
I just took a look around my work area to see what the most useful thing has been over the past week. It has been a rather long week since I’ve been studying for an exam. There is nothing I hate worse than exams. They are the least practical way to evaluate real knowledge that [...]