Monthly Archives: May 2008

malloc Wii Fit

I knew I wanted to write a blog post today and I really had two choices. 1. Join in the debate over whether or not you need to know C in order to be a real programmer. 2. Talk about … Continue reading

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USB on a Macbook Pro is a southpaw

Today while I was doing some work I had the most recent Macbreak Weekly podcast going in the background. For the second time in the last few weeks one of the hosts via Skype was sounding an awful lot like … Continue reading

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It was totally Epic

I was, as always on Wednesday, finishing up watching the latest Zero Punctuation review over at the The Escapist when I noticed that they had a new video that is a tour of Epic Games. Epic happens to use TestTrack … Continue reading

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My favorite features of TestTrack 2008.1.1 (and why that last .1 is important)

A couple of weeks ago I did a little write up of my favorite features from Surround SCM 2008.1. Unfortunately, afterward I kept getting requests from the TestTrack guys about when I was going to do the same thing for … Continue reading

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Having your world turned upside down by punctuation

Man did I start something today. So I’ve been working on an article that is due in a week or so and the first draft got reviewed today. One of the first comments in the Word document read like this: … Continue reading

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Presentation for the best/worst fake website ever

After passing this along to at least three different people I’ve decided to post it here. That Merlin Mann makes me laugh.

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Space shuttles and higher quality without the junk food

Isn’t fun to be blamed for doing something wrong when writing code? Nothing quite like having QA, or even worse a customer, find some major issue with something you wrote. Writing software is a hugely personal thing; there is a … Continue reading

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