December 10, 2002
Want to learn XML, CSS, JavaScript, DHTML, ASP, SQL, .NET, Macromedia Flash, SOAP, or WAP? Check out the wonderfully clear tutorials at W3Schools. The site’s a bit confusing to navigate, but the tutorials are fabulous and easy to understand. Code Complete by Steve McConnell This book is impossible to summarize. On one hand, it’s an encyclopedia of programming practices — how to write more effective, more maintainable code (and how not to). […]
Monday, December 9, 2002
“Later that night, sitting at the kitchen table, hearing the dog sigh for no reason you can think of, you know Tramp was wrong. There’s endless room in a human heart. Build three rooms or three million, and they’ll have the same tenants: Love. Fear. And Hope. And isn’t it odd how two of those tenants always end up sharing a room.— James Lileks
Wednesday, December 4, 2002
STUN Software is being changed. Check out the September 2002 Financial Statement for entertainment and the value statement (which is basically a copy of this Wiki page as of today).
December 3, 2002
Brennen: Can we set this up on our server? It’s a way of setting up an e-mail server to query the Spamhaus Block List, which is a list of 90% of the spammers out there. That will only block e-mails from these spammers, should cut down massively on spam coming through our server, and won’t block legitimate e-mail. And in a completely different vein, BackLight is a MacOS X tool that […]
November 26, 2002
In other news, they’re remaking Solaris. This would mean nothing to me if I hadn’t accidentally watched a good portion of this Russian film from 1972 that, if personified, would surely be Ben Stein’s character in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. It is probably the most boring science fiction film I’ve ever seen, and that includes all those boring parts of 2001 and THX-1138. Note to self: […]
Monday, November 25, 2002
I’m back from a great weekend with Saalon, during which our most important achievement was our work on the Daemonsong website. Daemonsong is now live. And thanks to our application of Extreme Programming practices, it all works. It all works. Some of the back-end stuff doesn’t work yet, but that’s okay. The public website works. I’m repeating that because it’s so rare. Far too […]
Friday, November 22, 2002
In the early 1930s, Disney animators were struggling to bring the same depth of acting skills to their cartoon characters that actors were achieving in live-action films. Cartoons are a deliberately simplified representation of reality, stripped of the incredibly complex subtleties we are accustomed to in the real world. These animators realized that they could never portray the same subtleties through animation, since the medium was too broad by nature. Instead, they […]
Friday, November 22, 2002
In the early 1930s, Disney animators were struggling to bring the same depth of acting skills to their cartoon characters that actors were achieving in live-action films. Cartoons are a deliberately simplified representation of reality, stripped of the incredibly complex subtleties we are accustomed to in the real world. These animators realized that they could never portray the same subtleties through animation, since the medium was too broad by nature. Instead, they […]
Thursday, November 21, 2002
Here are the promised pictures of my new bedroom.
November 20, 2002
Please read my manifesto about the way I’d like to run a company, and comment by editing the page (click the “Edit text of this page” link at the bottom of the page). I realized today that I’m living a science fiction novel. And not in that happy, Star Trek, gee-whiz-cel-phones-are-almost-magical sense. I’m living a Frederik Pohl novel, whose name should be sufficient warning in itself. Here’s the situation: I work in an open office environment. I work in one […]