David Weiss

Especially with a code base that is mature, assumptions correctly made years ago can be terribly difficult to deal with later when the curre...

A few tweets ago, (I always feel weird referring to Twitter in the past tense) I posted : Why are the unintelligent or uninformed so arrogan...

You don't have to understand calculus to appreciate this entertaining story : A teacher, trying to explain what a theory is, asked this ...

When I was a little boy my Mom had me memorize this little poem: Stick to your task ’til it sticks to you; Beginners are many, but enders ar...

One of the great benefits of working at Microsoft is that when you add a new little one to your family, you get 1 month of paid paternity le...

When Apple announced that the "sweet" iPhone Software Development Kit was going to be AJAX and "Web 2.0 stuff", most dev...

You may have heard the saying, "It's the journey, not the destination." I like this saying, but I have never applied it to use...

From what I can gather, the biggest problems with the iPhone seem to be as follows, in order of severity: You can only use AT&T network ...

The best thing about Silverlight is its icon. For regular users it's a web-browser plugin that allows you to view and use Silverlight c...

From Apple's Hot News web page: Apple Statement iPhone has already passed several of its required certification tests and is on schedu...

I was just skimming through the Windows Vista User Experience Guidelines and while in the Design Principles section I came upon this title,...

John Gruber writing on Apple's choice of AAC as the DRM-free format sold on iTunes, makes this interesting comparison: Apple’s use of A...

Note: The following essay applies to software developed for an upgrades-based business model. While it may apply to other software business ...

Now this is interesting. Jack Greenfield and Keith Short take on the future of software development: Total global demand for software will...

In a kind of déjà vu moment, two of my favorite blogs posted about the same thing, on the same day! The topic: How writing code is similar t...

Now WebKit includes a JavaScript debugger named Drosera . To use it you need to get the newest build of Safari and enter this in the Termina...

Dave Thomas posts about how Perl and Ruby are like glue that connect things together on the internet. The problem with Perl, he conjecture...

This has got to be my all time favorite comment from the press: "The autonomy of this relatively small division allows Microsoft progra...

Brian Jones has a follow up post about the whole no default PDF support in Office debacle. It's an interesting read that also points t...

I think from time to time, everyone has to deal with politics. Depending on your organization or team your milage may vary, but where there ...