If you send me to code examples containing either of the following you are not going to be hired, ever. test ? true : false if ( test ) ...

My letter to the South Kingstown School Committee of my grave concerns about the administration's objective for Blended Learning in our...

Good programming rant Programming Sucks. Take way is "programs you depend on are written by dicks and idiots." Say it loud brothe...

Yesterday I had the opportunity to talk with the High School’s new Principal Robert Mezzanotte and the STEM Coordinator Simone Palmer. The ...

Paul Kahn, one of the two founders of Dynamic Diagrams, once described his design agency as "specializing in what they have not done be...

I am always advocating for keeping and carrying only one notebook for all projects. Maintaining a single notebook does have its own problem...

A method we have in our common library is a check that a string is null, empty, or contains only whitespace. I suspect everyone has this met...

I was bitching about what Google Documents is missing for technical documents. Which, in all honestly, is not much, especially, in the light...

We use JMX a lot for low level, dynamic management of our systems. Even the most basic of MBean implementation that uses the "MBean...

Chase's & Stewart's Mistake-Proofing  is a useful read about the theory and practice of avoiding mistakes in manufacturing and s...

This a developing post of my education about schools in the USA. It will be idiosyncratic. I tend to pick up anything and read it. In time i...

If I am going to be successful in lobbying for a high school education deserving of our children I will need to learn a whole new kind of po...

Since I often write blog postings with embedded code I get frustrated with Blogger's editors. Neither the "Compose" nor the ...

Extending the idea in the Picking for scraping posting is the traverse . A traverse safely traverses a (typically) hierarchical data struct...

My boss was a member and, later, chairman of the Lenox, MA school committee for over 10 years. I am glad for his explanations of the alien w...

I received a response to my letter with some questions about the 1:1 initiative. Note that the formatting is incorrect in some areas: I ha...

Apple's removal of historical reenactment games because they contain images of the Confederate battle flag is ahistorical, reactionary, ...

There has been a little discussion on Facebook as to whether children should learn cursive handwriting or not. I think they should, but ... ...

Here is the letter I have sent to the Superintendent and School Committee Chairwoman with 10 questions about the School District's tech...

A well presented example of how a neural network learns, in this case, to play a simple video game. Worth watching even if you know how neur...