Way back when dinosaurs roamed the earth, I predicted that Java would be the key to network computing. It's platform agnostic, and Java applications can be delivered by a web server. Well, that didn't happen. Instead, Javascript matured enough to pro...

Okay, work with me on this for a minute. There's nothing new about Linux. Linux has been the server go-to for decades now. But I’m talking about Linux on the desktop. Every year since the turn of the century was supposed to be the year of the Linux D...

Tombstone is one of my favorite movies. As far as I can tell, it is mostly based on actual history, but compressed into a much shorter time period so it could all happen within a single movie. Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday were indeed friends. A quote ...

I have a history with Wordpress, and I like it, but if I had to choose a web framework for a new web site... One reason why...

This doesn't really count, but I'll mention it anyway. I got started programming on my friend's HP-65, after which I ported the program to his HP-41C. Yeah, they are calculators, but they were very programmable. I wrote a space wars program. We had t...