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May 28, 2002

Larry McVoy

Larry McVoy is the primary author of BitKeeper, a distributed source control system, recently adopted by the Linux Kernel project. KernelTrap.org has an interview with him.

Posted by Brian at 10:51 AM |

May 27, 2002

Absolute Powerpoint

Absolute Powerpoint is the history of one of the most (userful|annoying) pieces of business software out there.

Posted by Brian at 9:58 PM |

May 22, 2002

orbitz lisp

To read: New Architect: Orbitz Reaches New Heights -- talks about their use of LISP in implementing their travel reservation system.

Posted by Brian at 1:04 PM |

May 21, 2002

quake3 pyramid

Some Spanish Quake III players have made a 56-player "human" pyramid in the low-gravity level of the game. Cool!

Posted by Brian at 1:48 PM |

junit a cooks tour

On the to-be-read stack: JUnit: A Cook's Tour, by the guys that wrote the best-known Java unit testing framework (and the basis for most of the frameworks in other languages).

Posted by Brian at 12:20 PM |

May 9, 2002

ibm ebay

Looks like IBM has beaten Sun and Microsoft in the bid to build the new Ebay infrastructure. It's going to be based on WebSphere, which is in turn based on Apache, so that's pretty cool.

Posted by Brian at 10:10 AM |