Value Safety
While listening to my colleague Niclas Nilsson's presentation called "Dynamic Languages for Statically Typed Minds" last week at PBT Group in Cape Town it occurred to me that wh...Code Litmus test
A few weeks ago an email was going around about how you could diagnose a stroke without any medical training just by answering three simple questions and get the person to the d...Volta thoughts
A month ago Microsoft released Volta, which is a technology preview, but to my surprise not very many reactions have been published. Sure, it's been the holiday season, but even...Singapore and South Africa
January starts in a whirlwind with a trip to Singapore for a project and the day after I get back I'm off to South Africa for a workshop. I will also be giving two presentations...Two problems collaborating
I don't know how many times it has happened that I have a problem that has mystified me, only to realize after a while that there are two very simple, natural problems collabora...Another change
It's been pretty quiet here on my blog for a while for one simple reason. It's been an extremely hectic year! Some of the larger and more unusual things that happened were