Thoughts and Tangents on Programming Frameworks

Robert Stackhouse wrote an excellent article on his blog titled Frameworks as a Means of Creating Transferrable Expertise. I started writing a response in the comments and ended up going off on quite a tangent. Thus, I’ve reposted parts of his article and my responses here, as well as some followup dialog.
It almost seems as [...]

Musical Disappointment

I was cleaning house today and listening to the radio (95.1 in BCS to be exact) and I heard a song on the Weekly Top 40 countdown from Jamie Foxx called “Blame It”. The song basically goes about saying that if a girl doesn’t want to seem easy she can just drink a lot, sleep [...]

Obama Moving Fast in the Right Direction

Wow. I never thought I’d see the day when the government actually did a full 180 on information disclosure. This article from Slashdot talks about Obama’s directive to all .gov agencies to choose public disclosure more often than not. After 8 years of exactly the opposite I’m sure he’s going to meet some resistance from [...]

Rights to Privacy Chipped Away By Supreme Court

Okay, so I have mixed feelings about one of the Supreme Courts latest decisions. The NYTimes has an article on the particular case I’m talking about. In a nutshell, a man was arrested due to faulty police records and his vehicle was subsequently searched. The police found drug residue and an illegal gun in his [...]

Personal Password Management

As a web technology person, I sign up for a lot of online accounts. Everything from personal photo sites to online banking, security wikis to open source projects. Recently I decided my password security was not the best because I only had about 8 standard passwords I would use across all my website accounts. I [...]