My blog started off life at Blogspot, and professed to have ideas, rants, general armchair architecting and the occasional github release. Still the same goal :). All those old posts have been copied here. New posts will be added here alone
- 2024
- 21 Jul 2024 Two kinds of teachers motorcycles teaching
- 10 Mar 2024 dev-a personal project tool ideas dev tools
- 25 Feb 2024 Should there be an app for that? musings engineer-life design applications
- 04 Feb 2024 Using GenAI to build a real-world app (and not succeeding..yet)
- 2023
- 22 Feb 2023 This Website As A Graph graph conceptual website meta
- 21 Feb 2023 Just Is A Four Letter Word engineering-manager-life rant
- 2022
- 24 Sep 2022 Editing as you may think ideas
- 17 Sep 2022 Delta Language ideas
- 2018
- 22 Nov 2018 Why literate programming has not been adopted
- 2015
- 23 Oct 2015 Autogenerated GUIs on steroids
- 15 Aug 2015 Pwd Rules ideas
- 2014
- 14 Dec 2014 Lingaa->Rajni->Balleilakka->Choirs : How mass movies lead to high music non-technical off-topic
- 14 Aug 2014 Idea: A screenreader that's a market place, not a queue ideas
- 17 Jun 2014 Fixed order graphs with Graphviz tips graphviz
- 09 Mar 2014 I fixed some hardware! off-topic
- 07 Jan 2014 A better portable environment idea
- 04 Jan 2014 Idea: Stable visualization of a codebase ideas
- 2013
- 25 Dec 2013 Last post of the year
- 13 Mar 2013 Eternal digressions of the engineer mind
- 10 Mar 2013 Code as you think ideas ideas-wip
- 10 Mar 2013 Built node-webkit...finally node-webkit
- 09 Mar 2013 bash tip: setting terminal tab title programatically tips bash
- 03 Mar 2013 The Ultimate Personal Task Manager idea
- 01 Mar 2013 Groovy DSL Voodoo... or why I think imperative programming makes more evolutionary sense dsl rant groovy fluent jack
- 14 Feb 2013 JMeter as a webapp ideas
- 10 Feb 2013 Explicit Language constructs for architectural concepts ideas jack
- 14 Jan 2013 Excel as a UI Mockup tool jugaad excel UX amateur UI
- 14 Jan 2013 "Whose Turn?" App ideas
- 2012
- 04 Dec 2012 An agent-based parser for a structural IDE ideas
- 29 Nov 2012 Idea: Email + Document Server in a box ideas
- 03 Oct 2012 JS++ ideas
- 19 Sep 2012 Idea: Use a map framework to depict code ideas fluent
- 15 Sep 2012 Why new bottles with the same old wine works... everytime! rant soapbox
- 13 Sep 2012 The "Save Download to Category" Browser Add-on ideas
- 27 Jun 2012 Tools are the bane of the Beginner rant soapbox
- 10 Jun 2012 What if there IS no source code? ideas fluent jack
- 07 Jun 2012 Naked Objects for Mobile ideas
- 27 May 2012 Snipped from the web: an idea related to GUTS guts note-to-self
- 20 May 2012 Why
- 07 May 2012 I am Jack's total lack of unlayered design ideas jack
- 06 May 2012 Coin, Lambda, Jigsaw and EJB Home Automation: My take on the JavaOne 2012 Hyderabad 2012 conferences javaone hyderabad java
- 19 Apr 2012 Of Phonewords and Carpet Jingles: Its funny how the brain works funny off-topic
- 18 Apr 2012 Fluent in the real world: Light Table fluent jack
- 14 Mar 2012 Early thoughts on Jack ideas fluent jack
- 11 Mar 2012 Named ranges - a potentially useful concept for Jack (or any normal language)? jack
- 01 Mar 2012 Nice idea from a HN thread jack
- 07 Feb 2012 Two ideas to improve impress.js ideas impress.js
- 03 Feb 2012 Programmers have pretty low expectations from their languages
- 16 Jan 2012 Rules for life ideas
- 15 Jan 2012 IPFT: The Hubby Hangout I'd-pay-for-that
- 15 Jan 2012 IPFT: Snor I'd-pay-for-that
- 15 Jan 2012 IPFT: Playhouse for adults I'd-pay-for-that
- 13 Jan 2012 Sudocode fun
- 2011
- 26 Dec 2011 Functional vs Implementation Models
- 26 Dec 2011 Focus considered harmful osnext
- 14 Dec 2011 OS.next ideas osnext
- 13 Dec 2011 Codermetrics: A review codermetrics Books
- 11 Dec 2011 Information Density and textual vs visual ideas fluent jack
- 11 Dec 2011 Descriptive Drawing Language ideas
- 04 Dec 2011 My Bowerick Wowbanger homage... aka the wikipedia breadth-first read read-wiki-cs
- 01 Dec 2011 I visited JavaFXville and all I got was this post downloader flv player rant youtube
- 27 Nov 2011 Personal Themes
- 19 Nov 2011 Droidcon Bangalore 2011 conferences droidcon android
- 28 Oct 2011 Jack: the whys and wherefores jack
- 28 Oct 2011 Jack and Turing completeness jack
- 27 Oct 2011 Jack: some new thoughts, a few iterations jack
- 18 Oct 2011 Intent to sms contact ideas ideas-done
- 08 Oct 2011 Physics of Software: a review
- 24 Sep 2011 Painting vs Rendering
- 17 Sep 2011 Subtext IRL
- 14 Sep 2011 On self containment
- 14 Sep 2011 I know everyone has to be a grasshopper first, but... rant sicp
- 11 Sep 2011 On a personal note: Remembering 9/11 off-topic personal
- 10 Sep 2011 DSLs don't grown on Family Trees
- 08 Sep 2011 A personal exploration on Java's Enum declaration
- 01 Sep 2011 Lispdown: continued
- 01 Sep 2011 Jack: Allow WIP pseudo code jack
- 29 Aug 2011 SICP: The first pass Books sicp
- 29 Aug 2011 Lispdown ideas-wip lispdown sicp
- 22 Aug 2011 On Software Testing and the case for the Common Test Scenario Database soapbox
- 09 Aug 2011 SICP: The beginning Books
- 09 Aug 2011 Requiem for a capability-based UI framework ideas
- 09 Aug 2011 Dynamic Logic: The good parts Books
- 04 Aug 2011 New paradigms in wiring code emerging rant
- 13 Jul 2011 Tip: Disconnecting Chrome from IE's Proxy settings tips
- 30 Jun 2011 Basic tools for analyzing Large Codebases
- 23 Jun 2011 Flexible Software
- 08 Jun 2011 First time parents: an app rollout story
- 08 Jun 2011 A runtime that does static/dynamic analysis
- 03 Jun 2011 Notes on Large graph building
- 15 May 2011 The trail to the big ball of mud
- 15 May 2011 Code as workflow
- 09 May 2011 I would LOVE to be a tool developer, but...
- 09 May 2011 Big Ball of Mud Architecture is like cancer; tools and policy are like chemo
- 15 Apr 2011 Evolutionary vs Snapshot development
- 14 Apr 2011 Nagivation asides
- 14 Apr 2011 Goldberg Maps
- 03 Apr 2011 Mirah: first impressions
- 24 Mar 2011 Dependency Hell: There has to be a better way rant
- 20 Mar 2011 Pinning PortableGit to the Windows 7 taskbar
- 17 Mar 2011 TDD is an all-or-nothing proposition rant
- 12 Mar 2011 Testing RIAs using pure javascript: the return of Selenium Core ideas
- 06 Mar 2011 The need to code - my version soapbox
- 27 Feb 2011 Idea extension: The dead letter box framework ideas
- 20 Feb 2011 Idea: An acceptance test framework for command line programs
- 19 Feb 2011 The problem with TDD for custom development
- 17 Feb 2011 Installs should be hudson-simple rant
- 17 Feb 2011 Idea: InstantQ ideas
- 08 Feb 2011 Jack/Webster/Fluent: Use YAML as the text format webster fluent jack
- 06 Feb 2011 Reality Driven Development rant
- 06 Feb 2011 Concept: Treat requirements as external forces, especially non-functional requirements
- 05 Feb 2011 Webster/Fluent/Jack: Create a text-based syntax as well
- 05 Feb 2011 Maintainability of code rant
- 04 Feb 2011 Idea: Queues: a visualization of work queues ideas
- 31 Jan 2011 An easy launcher for redcar on Windows
- 25 Jan 2011 Jack: Javascript should be the base language jack
- 24 Jan 2011 Idea: A textmate rewrite in Fantom ideas
- 23 Jan 2011 Idea: More Effective Workspaces ideas
- 18 Jan 2011 A goal for Fluent
- 17 Jan 2011 True BDD for Webapps ideas
- 05 Jan 2011 Wireless Projection ideas
- 05 Jan 2011 Simple Admin Tool ideas
- 04 Jan 2011 Metalysis
- 2010
- 25 Dec 2010 Webster: switch modes instead of making it hybrid
- 24 Dec 2010 Idea: Photo to Graphviz dot file for android
- 24 Dec 2010 Idea: Photo to Graphviz diagram: an android app
- 24 Dec 2010 A delicious alternative ideas
- 23 Dec 2010 Things that I'm really interested in A-Goal-Apart
- 15 Dec 2010 Slots: It's like freemind converted to twitter :) ideas
- 05 Dec 2010 OT + Grammar = New way of defining languages? ideas fluent
- 29 Nov 2010 Slashchrome: an idea whose time is long overdue ideas
- 29 Nov 2010 Layered model for software components ideas
- 29 Nov 2010 Idea: A language that has DI built in
- 29 Nov 2010 Concept: Dynamic analysis of code statically
- 15 Nov 2010 Idea: A browser plugin that answers the question: "How did I get here" ideas
- 15 Nov 2010 Fantom: a new language to learn
- 14 Nov 2010 Some structural editor links
- 13 Nov 2010 FrankenEditor: an unholy marriage of emacs and vi
- 13 Nov 2010 Doh! Vi and emacs ARE structured editors
- 11 Nov 2010 I propose, others implement...And a vim hater recants
- 01 Nov 2010 Doc Dep: A tool to handle the dependency of code and its corresponding documentation ideas
- 13 Sep 2010 Codeviz: Some thoughts
- 19 Aug 2010 Grand unified theory of sw maintenance
- 18 Aug 2010 Quantum Commuter ideas
- 11 Aug 2010 Idea: A URL/URI spec for code ideas jack
- 06 Aug 2010 Code Canvas
- 05 Aug 2010 Idea: The "Switch around the And" plugin ideas
- 05 May 2010 Idea: Boxview - a new kind of html editor ideas
- 15 Apr 2010 Visual != Graphical
- 07 Feb 2010 Syntactic Sugar IS UI for programming languages
- 24 Jan 2010 Idea: Where's my stuff ideas
- 2009
- 29 Dec 2009 webster: avoiding the editing problem
- 09 Sep 2009 More thoughts on webster
- 10 Jul 2009 Webster: the web-based structural editor
- 30 Jun 2009 FEM - like analysis on code ideas fluent jack
- 30 May 2009 A Web-based MPS Editor ideas fluent
- 17 Apr 2009 Thoughts on Joey
- 17 Apr 2009 New ideas ideas
- 13 Apr 2009 Visual Programming: how it should really look
- 08 Apr 2009 Ted Neward's Languages talk
- 05 Apr 2009 define: roomba football
- 23 Mar 2009 Tax season and opensource
- 05 Mar 2009 Minor nice to haves ideas
- 27 Feb 2009 A true code format, and its editor ideas jack
- 08 Feb 2009 Further Ideas for a new language ideas jack
- 07 Feb 2009 Ideas for a new language ideas jack
- 30 Jan 2009 Idea: Working Diagrams ideas codeviz
- 25 Jan 2009 I wonder if there's antisocial networking, and webapps for that
- 17 Jan 2009 Painless Timesheets ideas
- 17 Jan 2009 OS Ideas: Tagging FS ideas os
- 17 Jan 2009 Auto indexer ideas
- 13 Jan 2009 Learning Haskell -1
- 04 Jan 2009 A pc my 2 year old can use ideas
- 2008
- 29 Dec 2008 Subtext and monads
- 11 Nov 2008 Idea: GTD version of Lightning ideas
- 11 Nov 2008 Idea: Automatic unit tests ideas
- 03 Oct 2008 Can I code in Thought?
- 2006
- 06 Sep 2006 JShell contd...
- 18 Aug 2006 Sidebar: JShell
- 04 Aug 2006 The tiny dev tools
- 03 Aug 2006 The tiny app platform
- 03 Aug 2006 A lean n mean java machine
- 02 Aug 2006 Account Management Software ideas