There’s an epidemic among programmers of “warning obliviousness.” That is, simply choosing to ignore the highly pertinent warnings that emerge from the compiler as it passes through your source files. This nasty habit not only risks masking bugs in currently shipping products, but leaves the door wide open for future bugs to worm their way […]

Taking a hint from sjk in a previous comment on this blog, I have added a “live comment preview” functionality, exactly like the one being used on Hawk Wings. The plugin is called, accurately enough “Live Comment Preview,” and was written by Jeff Minard and Iacovos Constantinou. It installs in true WordPress style – simply […]

Today I’m posting two updates: a minor revision to FastScripts, and a major version upgrade to Clarion. In addition to more tangible features, both FastScripts and Clarion are now Universal – tested on a Core Duo iMac. To Apple’s credit, I spent more time getting to the iMac (I don’t own one yet – waiting […]

A lot of my readers have noticed that this blog covers extremely geeky programming topics that often fly right over the heads of less technically-submerged people. It’s not an intelligence thing – it’s all just jargon and experience. So every once in a while I’d like to pull my head out of my assumptions about […]