It’s been commonly accepted in North America that India and China are graduating more engineers than we are and that this is going to lead to a shift in the balance of innovation in the future. But a Salon article cites research that shows that the comparisons aren’t exactly fair: Typical articles have stated that […]
I’m back home again. The temperature change (from +20 celsius to -20 celsius) is far worse than the time change. Brr. Last time I flew, the regional jet that I flew from Ottawa to Chicago was equipment code ER4, which is an Embraer ERJ-145. The ERJ-145 doesn’t have much room overhead for carry-on material so you […]
I’ve been in San Jose for an internal Adobe event this week. The event was the Adobe Tech Summit – it’s like a PDC for Adobe developers. I’ve never been to a developer conference for internal developers only, so this was a new thing for me. To me it was better than the PDC in […]
Heap fragmentation isn’t something I think much about but this war story by Rico Mariani is good reading: Unmanaged Heap Fragmentation.
Digg is a relatively new service, that’s providing some real competition for sites like Slashdot and Fark. Digg is what my Long Tail site would be if I had some cash to put into it. Users submit sites, users vote for sites (they Digg them), and the sites that get the diggs go on the […]
It’s interesting to think about the future. I’ve been going through my wife’s family’s photos and history and what I have of my own family, and trying to get good digital copies of everything. I’ve scanned stacks of photos, and I’m trying to do a good job of creating a high quality digital archive of […]
Now this looks like a conference worth attending. Waterfall 2006. The software development methodology that’s so good we just keep coming back to it. Why is that, anyway?
One of those Windows things that really bugs me is when I can’t uninstall a program. I ran into that recently with a copy of DevPartner Studio. Trying to uninstall gave me this message: Error 1722.There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A program run as part of the setup did not finish […]
We’ve got a KitchenAid stove, and it’s got a lot of features. One of the stranger ones is “sabbath mode”, which is designed so that people who are of a religion that prohibits them from operating electronic devices (like stoves) can program them to operate automatically on the forbidden day, so that they can still […]
Adobe has released a new library via opensource.adobe.com, called GIL, or Generic Image Library. It’s an interesting library for a couple of reasons. One is that it’s pushing the power of generics in C++ to let you create generic graphics algorithms that can work on images without having to write a specific version of the […]