I recently tried to get a USB sound card working on a Raspberry Pi 2. My motivation was to start working on audio applications like writing ...

I've been thinking about why I'm so much more productive in Smalltalk than any other language. The reason is because I'm curious...

I've been inspired recently with the new release of Pharo 3.0 . I updated my JavaLoader project and added a brand new project called iT...

I gave my first Pomodoro talk this year at the Tampa Bar Camp. Needless to say, I'm still a firm believer and practitioner of the techni...

I just updated my old Java Squeak project to SS3 and Pharo . It now works with Pharo 2.0 . You can find it here . If you find any bugs, let...

I was reading Robert Martin's excellent "Clean Coder" and he mentions a productivity tool called the "Pomodoro Technique...

This month I lost two of my heros: Steve Jobs and John McCarthy. As a child, I dreamed of being Steve Jobs. I admired him for what he accomp...

When I first started to work with web applications, it was just servlets and then came JSPs. At the time, I didn't like JSPs (and to thi...

I'm pleased to announce the start of a new venture . It's a new company to launch new mobile applications. The ball is just starting...

I've been getting my head around Objective C recently and remembering all that is great about about manual memory management. I found my...

Recently, I needed to have a singleton object. So, I came up with the following implementation to give me just that. var makeSingleton = fu...

I gave a talk this month to the Tampa Bay Python User Group on functional programming in Python. It's actually the second part of the ta...

One of the tenants of Extreme Programming is pairing on all production code. At first, it seems to make perfect sense. Four eyes on all code...

I've been meaning to write about my experience at the Domain Driven Design Immersion training that I took back in November. But, I'v...

Here's my presentation from last night for anyone that missed it. I mentioned several books and articles as well. Peter Norvig's...

I was recently reading Alice Cooper, Golf Monster: A Rock 'n' Roller's 12 Steps to Becoming a Golf Addict and had an epiphany. ...