Coding Relic

There is a Facebook fan page to establish hella- as the official SI prefix for 10 24 . This is good, but I don't think it goes far eno...

We're all familiar with computer viruses: bits of code which attempt to transmit themselves to another system, from which they look for ...

Resource leak located after extensive debugging. This portion of the system required significant refactoring to resolve the leak.

What the web needs right now is another blog post about the iPad. No, don't run away! This will be different, I promise. We'll foc...

I wonder what that means...

Even electric vehicles can be made cooler with a simple application of fuzzy dice.

Writing about the Newtpocalypse the other day inspired me to get my MessagePad 120 working again. In the comments of that post, Grant Hutch...

I was a summer intern at Sun Microsystems in 1991, working on Verilog test cases for a 155 Mbps ATM adaptor. I still have the T-Shirt, sho...

Both of my parents are from Tennessee. Per capita, Tennessee has the highest density of colloquialisms than any other place in the wester...

Allow me to summarize my recollections of The Calculus: One must always refer to it as "The Calculus," never just "calculu...

EE Times reports on a JP Morgan Analyst prediction that Intel will acquire an FPGA vendor. The purported reason: to expand its competitiven...

As we have a 4 year old daughter, computer games have become part of the background noise in our household. One of the popular games at the ...

Y2K was a big deal. A huge amount of money was spent updating older software which stored dates using only two digits. A common solution a...

Today, January 5, 2010, will be a big day in the history of mobile technology. A huge day. Any tech news site worthy of your attention shou...

Yes, the rumors are true. Google has constructed a series of secret underground labs connected by high pressure pipes, to synthesize and tra...