(Background: 12 New Languages in 2013)

Icon is a cool little programming language. It's worth learning, even if it isn't practical for daily use.

Pros:

• Syntax is similar to C, which makes it easy to learn.
• A handful of publication-quality Icon books (now out of print) are available ...

Saw this post over at the Project Team Blog Our Projects Are Always Late. Newshirt asks (I'm paraphrasing) "Why would this person not use a time tracking tool?"

Two answers:

1. Because it feels like an extra step. If you want to change a behavior like time tracking, you have ...

I've had this code around for a while and had an opportunity to drag it out the other day and dust it off. The problem: Every now and again there's a situation where you don't really want to catch an exception, but you do want to perform ...

I've had a couple of friends ask me if there's any way I could read family photos off a dying hard drive. Obviously, the best way to do this is to have a backup: then you can throw out the hard drive (use an electronics recycler) and restore ...

I'm working on a set of Django apps right now. Here are some of the things I'm doing to filter out defects as I work:

Design Review

I do a handwritten (paper) design. I like to design offline — I find that this forces me to do two things ...