It's official: I'll be buying a Mac

I am archiving older pieces I have written on other sites, making this the definitive home for all my work. This is one of several I am porting over from my GameDev.Net user journal. Enjoy! I've long contemplated satisfying my technolust and industrial design envy and plunking down the

Browser Obsolesence, or "Firefox? big deal!"

I am archiving older pieces I have written on other sites, making this the definitive home for all my work. This is one of several I am porting over from my GameDev.Net user journal. Enjoy! Okay, so now I check out Dashboard. It's not revolutionary; Linux desktop environments have

A Brief Study of Reticence

I am archiving older pieces I have written on other sites, making this the definitive home for all my work. This is one of several I am porting over from my GameDev.Net user journal. Enjoy! This will be the last of my entries bitching about the state of learning

An Emphasis on Architecture

I am archiving older pieces I have written on other sites, making this the definitive home for all my work. This is one of several I am porting over from my GameDev.Net user journal. Enjoy! I've long been critical of the way programming is taught in most computer science

Introductory Interfaces, Mastery Interfaces

An interface can be well-suited to persons already familiar with a set of conventions peculiar to a system or activity, but horrible for a beginner. Such interfaces are called "mastery interfaces."