Coders from Another Planet
While special hiring programs at Microsoft and other large computing firms help level the playing field for autistic engineers, there's …
Author: lima
The Perfect Process
What is the essence of a perfect process? There are so many methods for organizing work that it's hard to …
First Steps in LISP
The old CS room at my high school wasn’t exactly state of the art at the time, only two decades …
Isolate Projects with Virtual Machines
Today I’m talking about damage control. If you can relate to the comic below, this article is for you. (Thanks …
Knife
First off, there’s no secret or metaphor to unravel here. The knife in the picture doesn’t signify anything; it’s just …
PHP: A Brief History
I briefly review the history of the humble little scripting language that has become one of the most popular Web …
Spiral Fracture
A routine flight, a quiet moon, nothing special. But space is not silent.