The Firefox ad has finally made it into the New York Times. Like 8000 other Firefox users I have donated 30$ to make this real. Unlike many who have the bad luck of having their name written wrongly or even not at all in the ad, my name made it into the ad without any [...]
TaskSwitchXP Pro 1.1 alpha contains a funny easter egg in the about box of its configuration tool. If you wait long enough for all the credits to show up and disappear again, you’ll see a c: prompt on which magically the most feared command of all time appears “format c:” The security question is answered [...]
Mazera is a fun game for PalmOS. It contains some really original ideas and the ingame arcade games such as “Bug Pong”, “Bug Breakout” etc. are quite cool. There is also a secret level that is worth searching for. It’s called “Strange Place”. It looks partly like a chest of small things that didn’t fit [...]
JetBrains now have an own mag named onBoard. One of the first articles is about Language Oriented Programming (short: LOP) and about MPS (Meta Programming System), which is or will be a development environment for LOP integrated into IDEA. The ideas behind LOP sound strange and fantastic at the same time: You develop some languages [...]
When I was beginning to develop Squareness more than a year ago, I also began to search for a name. I knew I would release it someday. So it was clear it needed some name. After some thoughts I came up with “Square”, but a search on Wincustomize.com showed that there was already a skin [...]