RAD Manners :: June 2006
“Rails – the Ruby application generator - is the way that RAD systems have to go…”

Call Me A Hacker...? :: May 2006
"A hacker is an ill-trained coding dilettante - someone to be avoided at all costs..."

Seduced To The Dark Side :: April 2006
"I have confession to make: I’m a secret admirer of Microsoft..."

Mind Your Language! :: March 2006
"There is no perfect language. Apart, of course, from the one I’m writing..."

It's Life Jim (but not as we know it) :: February 2006
"Programming languages are entering a new and unpredictable phase in evolution..."

Bytegeist Smells the Coffee :: January 2006
"Java on the PC died. But its ghost has lingered on, haunting Microsoft..."

The Disaster Known As Visual Basic :: December 2005
"There have been many corporate disasters in the past – (this) will rank there among the finest."

Lies, Damned Lies and Wikipedia :: November 2005
"Wikipedia falls into the trap of asserting that every point of view is equally valid..."

Light At The End of the VB Tunnel :: October 2005
"VB 9 looks like what the guys who wrote VB .NET wanted but didn’t have time to do..."

The Worst Things In Life Are Free :: September 2005
"Why is the open-source world so derivative?"

Open Source? So Who’s Paying For The Free Lunch? :: August 2005
"IBM must thank God for Linus Torvalds..."

Quantum Software and The Mythical Man Month :: July 2005
"It could be that we don’t know how to build complex IT projects yet."

OOPS! Where did Object Orientation go wrong? :: June 2005
"There is not one single proven case-study that OOP works."