In the 10 Things Every Software Architect Should Know webcast (and slide deck ) Richard Monson-Haefel weaves a thoughtful exposition and go...

I will be heading to South Kingstown's Brewed Awakenings for Coffee & Code this Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday between 10:30 and 1...

I have used many kinds of UI toolkits over the years. To greater and lesser extents I have used Macintosh (pre-Cocoa), Win32, Motif, Qt, Swi...

Bill Scott's O'Reilly Webcast Designing Web Interfaces is well worth time watching. Lots of current examples.

I still get folks asking for social networking features for their sites. I generally try to tell them to integrate with an existing one. I e...

Man! I just got an iPhone 3G and now my technology-lust has attached itself to the Kindle 2 .

I am in the middle of building a web application for commenting on PDF documents. My plan is to use it to allow South Kingstown, RI resident...

"May you visit many more Wright houses. And may the police always be as friendly when you arrive." Found written on a bookmark in ...

Continuing to re-configure my Windows XP box I installed the excellent set of Unix utilities from unxutils at SourceForge. One command line...

I use OpenOffice as my office tools suite. For my needs -- letters, documentation, and budgets -- it is more than adequate. The one area wh...

I was tired of embeding HTML inside Javascript: How many times have you gotten right on the first try var template = '<p id="...

Everyone I know who might have contract work is getting an email from me these days! In my email to David Ascher of Mozilla Messaging I wro...

Poems have been flowing from blogs since inauguration day. Perhaps someone will collect them to share with all. In the interim, here are two...

Somewhere in Texas the secret-service is returning the village's missing idiot.

I am engaged in changing the way the South Kingstown town and school administration keeps us -- the members of the South Kingstown community...

I like to use "rooted" Windows Explorer windows. A rooted explorer window does not show a folder's ancestors nor any other dri...

I am looking for full-time or contract work. If you are interested in hiring me or just want to chat please send email to andrew@andrewgilma...

My grandfather was an iron worker in the ship-yards of Glasgow, Scotland. His job was to bore holes 4in thick steal plates that were used in...

For me participation in South Kingstown municipal government and school administration starts with awareness. What is happening right now in...