OMG, It Works!
June 2, 2023
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Which is not at all what I expected when I hit F5 to debug an app just now. One mark of a well-architected software package,
Category: Reflections
To Really Melt Your Brain…
May 11, 2022
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Take on any programming task which involves working with multiple different coordinate systems! You know, the things that define where stuff appears on a screen.
Taking Counter-Intuit(ive) to a Whole New Level
September 13, 2021
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My wife is the treasurer of a local not for profit which has used one form or another of QuickBooks for many years. Awhile ago,
Adventures in Networking
March 24, 2021
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My friend Tom recently touted a new-to-our-area fiber-optic service provider, Sonic, as having a great product offering very high access speeds, great customer service and
A New Personal Record
March 11, 2020
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I’ve noticed over the years I’ve spent programming that there’s a counter-intuitive metric for how well your architecture matches the problem you’re trying to solve
Buddy Can You Spare a Few Bytes?
May 7, 2019
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Another day in the Maelstrom of Badly Designed Software, this time involving not just an operating system function but also boot firmware. Geez, if you
Keeping It Alive
June 16, 2016
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I posted this on nVidia’s support forum, but felt it worth perpetuating somewhere else. === I was greatly relieved to see how nVidia is doing
Into the Wayback Machine
June 2, 2016
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My buddy Connell runs an election/campaign advisory firm. He has a database that he uses to track voter profiles, create outreach lists, and the like.
“Please Contact Windows”
June 18, 2015
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I’m a long-time user of the Adobe Creative Suite. So I’m more familiar with Adobe software than I’d like to be…because it is generally insanely
Murphy’s Law
April 24, 2015
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Okay, deep breath. I’m going to write about this because, well, it is funny, in a dark, ironic way. At least now that a few