The reasoning goes that if we create languages that keep people out trouble by restricting what damage they can do...

Most developers I know use AML: Arbitrary Markup Language, usually consisting of boxes, circles, and lines. When a given developer...

One problem I've seen with spreadsheets and with GUI designers is that they do a good job of revealing...

iUI is a framework consisting of a JavaScript library, CSS, and images for developing iPhone webapps.

With Scrippets, you can add boxes of nicely-formatted script to your blog. It even works in comments.

An example of the conundrum of transferring print documents to the web, one that has become legendary in some circles...

hat's the dirty little secret of our industry; green screen apps are usually pretty darn fast. They aren't...

For instance, the UI finds that a certain card is in the graveyard. It is essential that the UI sub...

Not all icons in the Finder are created equal. There are the normal file and folder icons. Then there are...

As we get ready to upgrade our servers I thought it’d be a good time to upgrade our deployment...

By far the dominant reason for not releasing sooner was a reluctance to trade the dream of success for the...

Even if you’ve trapped, you can change your programming style and reap some of the benefits of those new...

In a recent post, Stephan Schmidt makes several suggestions in order to write "Next Generation Java". Unfortunately, I disagree with...

The goal of modelling is to produce something substantially simpler than the world. This is achieved not through endlessly inventing...

For all of my professed admiration of Ruby on rails, I personally don't think that easier and more productive...

UML is applying an abstraction at the wrong end of the problem. It is primarily used to sketch object models...

At times when the RightThing is difficult to ascertain and a lot of time has been spent without much progress...

Rio is a facade for most of the standard ruby classes that deal with I/O; providing a simple, intuitive, succinct...

You want to try out all of the different ruby interpreters and versions including different patchlevels, but you don't...

Recently I've been made aware of people inside US Government organizations using my Ruby on Rails Security presentation as...

The same problem happened with address, which was specified to mean only the contact information for the author of a...

I brought up the question whether tests should call the translation API when checking for the presence of a string...

Write declarative tests using nested contexts without performance penalties. Contest is less than 100 lines of code and gets the...