By the magic of Twitter I learned from sizeof about a contest for the “sexiest mortgage calculator”. While my graphics skills leave much to wish for and I won’t participate, I found some cool links for mortgage calculators out there. I wish I knew about these when I was buying a ho... [More]

My old lawn mower has something wrong with the engine – it smokes a lot and comes to a rapid halt once it gets hot. Obviously that's not very usable. To finally cut my jungle of a yard I decided to get a new one. Rather than shelling out $300 for a brand new mower, I turned to craigslist. As a... [More]

Microsoft includes a box selection feature in Visual Studio 2010 based on my feedback and use cases. [More]

I spotted an article on InfoQ summarizing new futures of the upcoming JDK 7. Coming from a Java background, I was really curious to see what's in store. The article noted several "small language enhancements", so I binged around (yes, I actually used bing), and found the presentation slides from Jav... [More]