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Why There Are No Girls In San Francisco
Not long ago an academic named Richard Florida made a small ruckus by scientifically proving that the San Francisco Bay Area (along with L...
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Tables vs CSS: CSS Trolls begone
First mistake, drinking the CSS Kool-Aid Several weeks ago, I started designing the layout for my threaded comments on a social news site that I'm building. I had created a down and dirty layout using nested tables. It was ugly, and used nested tables but it worked. I was then paralized by guilt. I couldn't let the…
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Bill Gates sums up Microsoft's abusive history
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Why PHP won
When I first learned to program on the web, Perl + CGI was the dominant platform. But by the time I was building my first websites for com...
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The impact of language choice on github projects
Although I spend a lot of my play-time fooling about with other languages, my professional and released code consists of Python, C, C++ and, alas, Javascript. I've lived in this tiny corner of the magic garden of modern software development for 10 years, and I'm itching to strike out in a different direction for my…
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Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable
Back in 1993, the Knight-Ridder newspaper chain began investigating piracy of Dave Barry’s popular column, which was published by the Miami Herald and syndicated widely. In the course of tracking down the sources of unlicensed distribution, they found many things, including the copying of his column to…
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How Many (Indie) Games I Sell - Part Two
The first part of this column, in which I gave the full sales figures for one of my games, Geneforge 4: Rebellion , attracted a fair amount...
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Overnight success takes a long time
For some reason, this weekend has seen a lot of talk about what FriendFeed is/isn't/should be doing (see Louis Gray and others ). One pers...
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My NSA polygraph experiences
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