Last week I attended the TI Tech Days conference in Dallas and it was a stark reminder of the state of the economy. Last year TI had two major conferences, the TI Developer Conference and the Advanced Technical Conference. This year they bundled both into one and shortened it from 4 days to 2. The [...]
You may have been wondering where I’ve been for the past few weeks. Well, besides from working some insane hours, I’ve been trying to created programs for my iPhone using the open source toolchain. Now I’m all about open source but I have to admit this is a lot harder than I anticipated. I tried [...]
If you are familiar with OOP then you already understand the benefits of polymorphism and inheritance. It’s logical to think about a series of classes that are derived from some superclass (base class). In the beginning you design your software hierarchically so each module or system depends on some lower-level subsystem. But one day you [...]
A few days ago I finally reached my 40th birthday (thank God) and perhaps because of that I’ve started giving serious thought to how to best use time (yikes, I’ve started my midlife crisis). As you may recall, I recently bought an iPhone and, being a geek, I immediately began imagining creating programs for [...]
I’m a big advocate for continuing professional development. I am constantly reading technical books as well as books on self improvement. I like to read articles written by the gurus–hey, they must be doing something right if they’re getting published. But I’m amazed when I find a guru who is willing to admit that even [...]
