January 2008
3 posts
VMWare reminds us of just what Beta is
Companies have been attaching the word “beta” without regard for the meaning of the word. Google is quite possibly the largest offender, affixing the “Beta” tag on software that works, is feature-full, and more production ready than many of their competitors final release offerings.
The VMWare Server team wants to fix the injustice to the word “beta” and...
Thoughts on MacWorld
Since my computer is hosed because I’m stuck installing Visual Studio (don’t ask), I figured I might as well add to the noise about Steve Jobs Keynote.
Yesterday at 12, we all packed into the conference room, hoping for a live video feed. Instead we watched the live blogging on macrumorslive.com. Overall, it was a total snooze. Little apps that should have been on the device...
Count Lines of Code
Occasionally, I find myself wonder just how many lines of code I’ve written. Most of the time, I just run some combination of find and wc. But that situation is far from ideal. It doesn’t account for comments, blank-lines, etc. Sometimes, I write a half-assed script to strip out some of the comments in the language I’m most interested in. Again, that has a some drawbacks,...