Mea Vita: Carpe Diem

Java became what Ada wanted to be. Write once, run everywhere.  Javascript became what Java  applets  wanted to be. Mobile code in a web bro...

Dave Winer posted a lesson-learned tip about JavaScript. Although Java and JavaScript are unrelated languages, they have many similarities....

In the late 1990s, we used to joke about language holy wars at Apple. Apple had purchased NeXT, in December 1996, for WebObjects and the...

Hacks are simple shortcuts that increase productivity. They can be inelegant, but they solve a problem quickly. Hacks may be brittle, solv...