Archive for the 'Computers' Category

Federal judge ignores rights of individual

Posted by Tom on September 25th, 2009

Via Gruber, who posts following a TechDirt article.
A federal judge denies an individual of property (contents of an email account) without notification, with no opportunity for appeal (the person is not a party to the matter), and with no cause to suspect wrongdoing.
Saith Gruber, who dubs U.S. District Court Judge James Ware “Jackass of the [...]

Books worth their weight in gold

Posted by Tom on September 21st, 2009

For years, I’ve kept a personal (and unfortunately, unwritten) list of books I think every manager, programmer, and [insert category here] should read.
A book every programmer should read
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master. Every programmer I hired was required to read this book. It’s a great resource for people managing programmers too. The book [...]

On power users

Posted by Tom on September 17th, 2009

As I was driving in to school this morning, I had a mini-revalation on the difference between power-users and “regular” users. This thought may have been spawned by a research paper used in one of my classes [1], where power users became the de facto trainers during the implementation of an ERP system.
Maybe this is [...]

Apps broken in Snow Leopard

Posted by Tom on September 11th, 2009

I recently updated to OS X 10.6, Snow Leopard. I’m liking it—most things feel a little bit snappier. I also prefer the tweaks to editing events in iCal (which didn’t go far enough; 10.4 was better), and the changes to Exposé.
However, several apps (or “hacks,” if you prefer) broke with the update:

WindowShadeX, a better minimizer. [...]