Monthly Archives: February 2010

Internet Fax Services: RingCentral beats MyFax for me

I recently spent some time testing out MyFax for internet fax send/receive. A friend had good experiences, so I was optimistic. Unfortunately, everything was a problem for me. Their web site was complete Safari-unfriendly (I’m on a Mac) and I kept getting error pages that indicated a pretty poor job of running their business. Worse, [...]

Stainless steel and 8 screws on the inside

That’s my clavicle and its new best friend. For what it’s worth, I hate it. Definitely better than having those bones shifting around, but I really don’t like this.

Lute Tuning

I stumbled on this quote in a Wikipedia article on Lutes: Matheson, ca 1720, stated if a lute-player has lived eighty years, he has surely spent sixty years tuning. My immediate thought was that if a programmer has lived eighty then he’s probably spent sixty holding some combination of the control and arrow keys.

Groovy interview on Forbes.com

Inspired by some recent comments I made at the New York CTO club, my colleague Dan Woods just published an article at Forbes.com in which he interviewed me about what I see as some of the most significant advantages of the Groovy language in enterprise software development environments. I will just add that over the [...]

The truth about bones…

…is they break if you hit them hard enough. I think it is required, given my previous posts on all the benefits of cycling, to disclose that a few days ago I went out on a snowy morning when I probably shouldn’t have  and broke my collarbone in two places. While this has provided lots [...]