From MSDN ... "Deep Zoom enables the ability to zoom almost arbitrarily large images in Silverlight in a performant manner." This is still the most ridiculously over-used word in tech circles, because it's made up. It can, technically, be used as a noun, but "performer" is more common. Seriously, with...

I had three hours of phone interviews today with people from a company I'm very much hoping to work for. That was crazy. It's not any less exhausting doing it by phone. You start to get tired of talking about yourself. But I think it went pretty well. The last time I had that kind of marathon was in...

First this tool writes about how the London Stock Exchange crashes, and it's all the fault of using Microsoft software . He has no evidence, mind you, but that must be it. But oh wait, no, it was a network problem . It still seems ridiculous that people get into this religious zealotry, and people are...

Joe Stump, the lead architect for Digg, makes a comment that really bugs me, while another is positive, in a recent "my life as a programmer post" (that's the Google cached version... ironically Digg has overwhelmed his own server): More practical advice is that you should learn to know and love design...

Yikes, check out the comments following Jesse Ezell's post about tinkering with the iPhone SDK . That's a little tough to read. I'm happy to admit I'm an Apple fan, with a Mac Pro, MacBook Pro, two iPods, an iPhone and an AppleTV. They've got me. Heck, my two-year-old MBP is randomly shutting off and...

Bill Gates is just about done at Microsoft. I feel very fortunate just have been in the same room when he did the keynote at Mix06. I don't think the guy is evil in any way. I think he's f'ing brilliant, and he deserves every bit of his success. He's not always right, but he's a smart guy. I really dig...

It seems like a good post from the folks at Twitter has been interpreted by Scoble as being all about him . I gotta say, I'm just not seeing it. I'm also not sure why Scoble is throwing such a public tantrum about Twitter's down time. Regardless of what you think about it all, there's a strangely familiar...

I was listening to TWIT #136 and, wow, Leo Laporte is totally out of touch. Patrick Norton is not far behind. Listen starting around 36:30. I've found that lately these guys are hanging out in Pundit Valley and completely missing what's going on in the rest of the world. He's actually got the balls to...

I've written time and time again about how annoyed I get when developers spend incredible amounts of time putting others down under the guise of some nonsense academic debate . It annoys me to no end. Well sit back and block off your afternoon, because here's a post from someone called Stevey that brings...

Frans had a really good post about some things he has observed in the "alt.net" world . Honestly, with all of the blog posts I see on this "movement" lately, you'd think there was a cure for cancer just around the corner. As if it's that important. I think the single most critical thing mentioned in...