Shipping ordinary software on time is damned hard. Shipping great software in any time frame is extraordinary. Shipping great software on time is the rarest of earthly delights. – Jim McCarthy, Dynamics of Software Development I received my copy of Dynamics of Software Development by Jim McCarthy in the mail today, and this quote was [...]
The Yahoo! User Interface team updated their Graded Browser Support and IE6 is still alive as an A-grade browser, and that doesn’t appear to be changing anytime soon. The Graded Brower Support, or GBS, is the categorization of browsers into different levels that Yahoo! has agreed to support. An A-grade ranking means that the browser [...]
I spend a lot of my time thinking about software develoment, keeping up with what works for other people and what works for me. I’ve recently read Peopleware and Code Complete, and I’ve formulated some thoughts about software development and technical management that I’ve been meaning to write about. Hopefully, this copy-and-paste will get me [...]
I’ve recently been brushing up on my statistics by reading Principles of Statistics by M.G. Bulmer. I came across a problem and since I wrote some code to check my answer, I figured I’d post it with a short discussion about the answer. First, the question: In a certain survey of the work of chemical [...]
It was a night of firsts. I wrote my first Twitter widget. It is the ‘Latest Tweet’ widget on the far right column of the page that uses Twitter’s public JSONP API to pull in my last Twitter update. The only thing even mildly interesting is that it has a couple of regexes that finds [...]
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