I bought a SlingBox PRO earlier this summer. I primarily bought it for watching TV in my home office on my computer from my DirecTV HD-DVR. It performs fantastic on my fast home network.
This week, I’ve been watching it remotely in the hotel. I’m very impressed. I’m getting 800+ kbps. That’s about the upper limit [...]
Today was the first day of OSCON for me. The keynote was good. Seems like the emphasis is on parallelism this year. Interesting how a theme seems to emerge each conference (and I don’t think it is intentional).Intel’s Threading Building Blocks looks like a great project. I hadn’t seen anything about it until today. I [...]
I’m packing and getting prepared to go to Portland for OSCON 2007. This is probably my favorite conference I regularly attend. Unlike the big corporate sponsored events like Microsoft’s PDC or Apple’s WWDC, I never feel like I am having stuff shoved down my throat. I like that I can walk out a talk and [...]
I went to hear Grady Booch speak tonight in Bellevue. The topic was development tools and where they are going. He is a good speaker and the talk was enjoyable but I found myself questioning some of his conclusions. He gave a nice history of development environments and how we as developers have been moving [...]
So I bought an iPhone. It cost me a lot of money because I had to cancel my T-Mobile contract early. I got sucked into the hype and have an uncontrollable weakness for the latest gadget. In short, Apple has robbed me again.But I love the thing. It’s not without its faults but it changes [...]