Personal
The Personality of Computers
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009I was reading an article by John C Dvorak about the difference between Apple & Microsoft – and, critical as he usually is, he raises some good points. He made a single point that I thought relatively brilliant: Where is the Microsoft personality? In summary, he’s referring to how Apple has played the marketing game [...]
License to Code…
Thursday, July 10th, 2008Update: If you think licensing doesn’t matter to you as a programmer… check out this article about how the PwnageTool developers may have lost control of their source code. Licenses do matter! You know, I really haven’t been alive for that along. Less than 3 decades still. And yet, I am often in awe at [...]
Hurts so sweet…
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008Well… it’s been a long and seemingly unproductive day today. Anyone who’s ever used Linux for a period of time can probably relate to this feeling: you have an issue, but no matter what you do the program/problem wont behave as you would like. In my case, I have been attempting to get Steam, Wine [...]
Introductions
Sunday, June 29th, 2008Well I guess I should introduce myself in case any readers don’t know who I am. My name is Mark and I design enterprise systems, like Customer Relationship Management, Asset tracking, Intranets, Extranets, etc. I work in a Rapid Application Development tool (and environment) with just myself and my boss. We deploy medium-sized Microsoft SQL [...]