Sun recently acquired MySQL, a gutsy move that some might interpret as a slap in the face to Oracle. Oracle’s database has been a key part of enterprise Java software stacks for a long time and, until this point, a relational database was one of the few things that Sun did not directly provide [...]

Jeff Atwood recently wrote about what he calls The First Rule of Programming: it’s always your fault. That is, we should resist the temptation to blame the OS, the tools, the framework, and other technologies when the problem might still lie with our own code. To explain some of the merit in this [...]

Michael somehow found an opportunity to slip a pesky extension into my Firefox called the Total Confusion Pack. I was just tired enough when I woke up this morning that I was scratching my head trying to figure out why vowels were spontaneously going missing or why seemingly “safe” links actually got me RickRoll’d. [...]

Any programmer who has used version control will find the idea of -not- using it painful, and for good reason. Nevertheless, there are a few projects here for which it’s simply unavailable. As a general rule, any time we’ve had this issue at Tenthline the problem lies with the data formats we’re using.
I really dislike [...]