DRM = Doesn’t Really Matter
It’s true, DRM just doesn’t really matter. The music industry has pretty much seen the light at this point with Amazon now offering tracks from all four major labels DRM free. How much longer will it take for the movie...
Category: Rants
Random Rant
One of the most awesome pieces of software that I’ve come across in my career as a consultant and software engineer is Trac. Among the various awesome features of Trac include: An awesome plug-in system and library for all sorts...
Education And What We Can Learn From Other Countries
As the spouse of a teacher, I know first hand the challenges that many young teachers face in the US today. From waning parent interest and participation to lack of administrative support to poor professional development plans. Of course, there...
“Free” Money? Think Again…
Michael Kinsley has some sobering commentary on the economic stimulus package idea that’s floating around in Washington right now, perhaps one of the most hairbrained ideas to come out of DC in recent years. Kinsley’s subtitle says it all: “We...
Confucius On Programming
One of the favorite classes that I took in college was an introductory course to Chinese philosophy. From time to time, I found one or two passages from The Analects that I could apply to my computer science major. One...
The Slow Death of DRM
I’ve been in a somewhat heated debate with my once CEO and now VP regarding the effectiveness (or rather, the ineffectiveness) of DRM and how the media companies are really just screwing themselves (whilst also screwing customers) by not adapting...
Dynamic SQL: Yea or Nay?
I’ve always been on the side of stored procedures in the classic debate over the merits of dynamic SQL. In reality, I can only think of one good scenario where dynamic SQL at the application layer should be used: programmatic batch...
Interesting Find
So this morning, I was contemplating signing up for Amazon Prime since the holiday shopping season is a mere three months away and because I just moved to a new house that’s kind of out in the middle of nowhere....
I Hate Comcast
Over the past 4 years, I’ve been both a Comcast and Cablevision subscriber. When I moved recently, I was “forced” into subscribing to Comcast due to whatever stupid regulations are in place limiting competition. Let me list all the ways...
Mindblowing Job Candidate Trawling…
The following are the contents of an actual email that I received this afternoon: Hi cchen I have a very hot Java Developer rek with a direct-client in Manhattan. Please send me candidates with rates and contact-numbers. Interviews this week....