Last week I wrote about a day of infamy, but did not get around to talking about this. I was too happy about President Obama following through on his pledge to get our military forces out of Iraq. On that same day, the government did something that was not so good. The Fed essentially took control o...

The Lift web framework hit its 1.0 release today. Major congratulations goes to the Lift team. I have been lucky enough to get to know Lift founder David Pollak and Lift committer Jorge Ortiz. They are both very bright engineers and the high quality of Lift reflects this. I was very happy to give a ...

Well not quite, but spring training is here. My local teams, the Giants and A's, both play their first spring training game today. Tim Lincecum is even pitching today. Very exciting! Of course it's been an ugly time lately for Major League Baseball. Everyone is upset about Alex Rodriguez and his use...

Tonight was the monthly BASE meeting. Jorge did a great talk on Scala actors. Before the talk, Dick was talking about looking for a good builder implementation in Scala. This seemed to be an area where Scala did not offer much over Java. Even using some of Scala's more sophisticated syntactic sugar,...

Do you remember the Phoenix Suns? Do you remember the team that played like it was 1979? Do you remember Steve Nash dishing out 20 assists a game? Do you remember Amare Stoudemire scoring 40 points a game all on dunks? Do you remember barrages of 3pters coming from Quentin Richardson, Joe Johnson, R...

Just read about how pissed Cavs fans are that Mo Williams is not replacing Jameer Nelson in the All-Star Game. Seems most Cavs thought that Mo deserved to go over Nelson in the firs place, and are just plain insulted that Ray Allen was picked to replace Nelson. Do the Cavs fans have a legit beef? No...

All of America is upset about Wall Streets bonuses. Even The President is pissed. Guess what. All of America, including President Obama, is wrong. It's easy to say oh these already-super-rich CEOs are just lining their own pockets with taxpayer money, but that's a knee jerk reaction with no thought ...

Some people like to compare developers to artists. When it comes to web development, some people say there's always a man behind the curtain. Whether you agree or not, there are definitely certain freedoms that web developers enjoy. As a web developer, what are the greatest limitations and obstacles...

Last night I did a talk on Scala with David Pollak and Bill Venners for the San Fran JUG. This was a win-win situation for me. I got to talk about Scala, and I got to learn from David and Bill. One of the highlights for me was Bill's talk about how Scala allowed you to adopt techniques from dynamic ...

Just a week ago, the Florida Gators once again won the college football national championship. It was a tense game, much more so than any of their three other championship game appearances. Florida was blown out by Nebraska in 1995, but won easily against FSU in 1996 and Ohio State in 2007. A couple...