These new video tutorials should be an excellent resource for people that want to get a quick overview of some of RIFE's benefits.

Wherein I talk about the merits of type inference, the latest Cat release, unit tests, and miniature computers.

In his speech to the 2006 MIT Emerging Technologies Conference, Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos noted that about 70% of a project's time and effort is spent on tasks that, while important, do not differentiate a product or a business in any way from its competitors. Bezos suggested that such features, or "muck," may be outsourced to third parties.

The questions you forget to ask when you are interviewing for a job, but wish you'd asked after taking the job.

One of my graphics was recently featured in a BoingBoing story and is now available as a sticker. This is the story behind that graphic.

The Polyform Puzzler project was begun to scratch an old itch. After a long delay, the project was finally launched and is now maturing nicely. Interested parties are welcome to join in!

I have started work on an introductory textbook to programming and I am inviting feedback on my choice of languages and layout.

The latest book to be published in the "For Dummies" series covers Python. I'm proud to have played a small part in its production.

I've posted a preview of the Cat programming language which has actually has a static type checker and type inference engine.

Efforts to make non-Java languages perform well on the JVM accelerated in recent years. The benefits of turning the JVM into a highly-optimized, general-purpose execution environment are many, but so are the challenges.

Are there really separate programming paradigms? I don't believe so.

The Java Metadata Interface available in the Netbeans 5.0 and later platform is powerful. But, the API could be simpler. I've been putting together a helper class.

I've decided to just bite the bullet, get the pickaxe book, and slowly work through it during morning coffee breaks at Camp4 Coffee (a venerated Crested Butte establishment that is one of the centers of social discourse -- those of you who have come here for workshops know of which I speak).

My most recent post has sparked some debate. I thought I'd put my money where my mouth is and try to define type.

Have you ever noticed how most text when discussing computer sciences concepts fails miserably to properly define the terms they discuss?