Category Archives: Personal Development

On the Poor Showing of US ACM Contestants

April 26th, 2006

A post on slashdot.org notes The Continuing American Decline in CS as evidenced by the dismal performances of US students at the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest. The original story at businessweek.com suggests that the poor showing of American students at the competition is A Red Flag in the Brain Game. Of particular interest are […]

Paul Graham’s On Lisp

February 2nd, 2006

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 […]

Taking a Break from the Rat Race

January 20th, 2006

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 […]

Consumer Electronics Show 2006

January 8th, 2006

Today marks the end of CES 2006, which was held this year in Las Vegas. The show spanned the Sands Expo and all the halls at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Over half a million companies were represented, including all the major players in the consumer electronics industry. Other major companies that do not have […]

From Infosearch Media, Steve Doria Signing Off

December 15th, 2005

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 […]