Blue Collar vs White Collar developers

There is an serious and mostly ignored split between Programming as a Trade and Programming as a Science.

Introduction: Apple TV as a Matrix Switch Controller

I’ve run an autopatch matrix switch for a few years in my house. This total overkill solution boils down to one key feature: The ability to send any device (Tivo, DVD, Cable) to 0 or more outputs (Televisions, computers etc) in my house. It does this in a ‘matrix’ fashion so, for example, I can [...]

What am I Reading?

Reading: Trespassers at the Top of the World, Good To Great, See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA’s War on Terrorism, lots of documentation

JARS, Libraries, Runnables and Ant

For various and sundry reasons I wrote a nice little swing app awhile back which immediately sends me down the rabbit hole of ‘Packaging Java Applications’. Apparently the old adage that Java was designed by PhD’s and implemented by interns holds true in regards to the method of deployment for desktop java apps. Let me share my experience.

Happy April Foils!

The Foil Gnome covered my office in foil. Hmm wonder who that was.. @bakebot..

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