A book on the Lisp programming language has been made available on Paul Graham’s site. Lisp, not-so affectionately known as Lots of Infuriating Parentheses among undergraduate students, is a programming language that I have always wanted to learn but was never motivated enough to make a book purchase. Unlike most popular languages, which are either [...]
Ginger Applegarth provides a seven point guideline for taking a break from the working life in Quit Work for a Year: 7 Steps to do It Right. The first suggestion made in the guideline conveys very important information, which might not be known to workers, their employers, or their employers’ human resources departments. There may [...]
I joined TrafficLogic, Inc., now known as Infosearch Media, over a year ago. They gave me a software development opportunity, which I desired, when other companies were more interested in the software quality assurance abilities that I listed in my curriculum vitae. When I took up my appointment at TrafficLogic, I knew nothing about the [...]
My interest in contributing to open source projects has been growing lately. I use several open source operating systems, and I rely on many open source applications. There are many applications that I am very interested in developing for myself, and the open source community can provide a lot of off-the-shelf components that I can [...]
Checking out university course descriptions and syllabi is one way I remain sharp and competitive within the computing industry. They serve as a great resource on what books to purchase for recreational reading. They sometimes also validate other books I bought after some cursory reading at traditional bookstores. I have always questioned why otaku fascinate [...]