I was mighty thrilled to finally read something that is not euphoric about social networks and their ability to generate ad dollars. And it comes from a 'voice of authority' - Ted McConnell, General Manager-interactive marketing and innovation at Procter & Gamble. Commenting on 'consumer-generated media' he puts it brilliantly: Who said this is media? Media is something you can buy and sell. Media contains inventory. Media contains blank spaces. Consumers weren't trying to generate ...

There are various statistics related to the average defect density (i.e. how many defects one can expect to find in a code base); suffice to say, the numbers point to unhip ranges like 20 to 30 bugs for every 1,000 lines of code and even 100–250 defects per thousand lines of code Given this amazingly horrible data, what is one to do about it? There are a few possible answers, including: Write a lot of ...

Photos of Michelle Obama’s fashion choices during the presidential campaign, including the Narciso Rodriguez dress she wore on election night.

I never use it The times I have used it, its results have been crap I never use it I’m at a place in my life where I’m all about getting rid of stupid online crap that serves no other purpose than to add cruft to my inbox and sell my shit to marketing firms. I know that some people positively adore LinkedIn, and I’m not saying that it’s not a good thing for some ...

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Could it be that our Maniston is finally wising up and moving on? And maybe even getting in touch with her inner player? Just days after dinner in Los Angeles with rekindled flame John Mayer, Jenn was seen out with highlander hunk Gerard Butler. To keep rumors at bay, there was a third wheel in attendance. You know, just to make sure we all know that despite being seen getting cozy with the 300 star, ...

With a hypothetical next release of the C# language around the corner (more about that after Anders, our language Caesar, has delivered his “Future of C#” talk on the PDC 08), I’ve had the honor to receive an early print of The C# Programming Language Third Edition. As you can guess, this book is the successor to The C# Programming Language Second Edition, now extended with coverage for the C# 3.0 features and based on ...

With a hypothetical next release of the C# language around the corner (more about that after Anders, our language Caesar, has delivered his “Future of C#” talk on the PDC 08), I’ve had the honor to receive an early print of The C# Programming Language Third Edition. As you can guess, this book is the successor to The C# Programming Language Second Edition, now extended with coverage for the C# 3.0 features and based on ...

Sorry for the little absence there. My computer was in the shop getting fixed again, but it's fixed and I'm back!Last weekend, we took a little field trip to the Willamette Valley to visit Freddy Guy's hazelnut farm. It was harvest time, which was great fun to see. Now I can attest to just how fresh their hazelnuts are. We will have Barb (from Freddy Guy's Hazelnuts) on Everyday Dish, cooking up some delicious hazelnut ...

In the Epilogue section of the July-August 2008 section of Matthias Media’s the Briefing, Nathan Walter gives some good advice to those of us who listen to sermons on our iPods. These are suggestions “for how to listen to sermons in a way that will help us grow as Christians”: Vary your diet of preachers, and, sometimes, why not simply listen to an audio Bible? Be wary of comparing the online preacher (publicly or privately) ...

From Monty Python and the Holy Grail:

We’ve been having a discussion inside Object Mentor World Design Headquarters about the meaning of the OCP for dynamic languages, like Ruby, with open classes. For example, in Ruby it’s normal to define a class or module, e.g., # foo.rb class Foo def method1 *args ... end end and later re-open the class and add (or redefine) methods, # foo2.rb class Foo def method2 *args ... end end Users of Foo see all the methods, ...