I hate to admit it, but I think I love Microsoft’s Consolas font. I have not seen such a beautiful mono-spaced font since Courier. It’s easy to read, yet stylish, in a way that doesn’t distract nor interfere with legibility. It reminds a little of one of my other favorite fonts, Gill Sans.
This morning I was listening to a piece of music that I’ve been looking forward to hearing with geat anticipation. It’s by an ensemble that plays a fairly accessible blend of jazz fusion/rock – exactly the sort of thing I love to listen to most, and what I aspire to play. I discovered them by [...]
Martin Fowler describes a quality he calles Customer Affinity, the ability for a software developer to work with the customer. I’ve often heard it said that enterprise software is boring, just shuffling data around, that people of talent will do “real” software that requires fancy algorithms, hardware hacks, or plenty of math. I feel that [...]
I hate hate hate Struts tags. I see no advantage to Struts tags vs JSP scriptlets. I think I feel like someone looking at Lisp source code for the first time – that rising panic when you realize that the semantics are staring you in the face, but everything looks the same – nouns, verbs, [...]
Charles Petzold writes about a possibly too-helpful IDE in Does Visual Studio Rot the Mind. The experiences related therein are the reason why I prefer a certain very powerful editor that nonetheless puts me in the driver’s seat.