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Automatic memory management (aka Garbage Collection) has been a mainstream for way over the decade now. Java was the one to make it popular. Some might argue that Lisp or Smalltalk should take all the credits but I’m talking mainstream here. Nowadays, any reasonable programming environment has it. Java, .NET, Ruby on Rails, Python, you […]

Everybody is talking about Facebook now. The social site. The new application platform. The new web. Microsoft pays insane amount of hard cash for share…
Why?
I set up an account to see what’s that. And I can’t see the reason to use it. Not a single one. Can anyone tell me - why would I want […]

I really like Google Documents. I’ve written quite a lot of different texts with it, many of them in collaboration with other people.
Couple of months ago Google redesigned the interface. I haven’t been using the app for a while. I took a look at the new UI and it look nice.
Until today. I logged in […]

I am constantly amazed how poorly software is suited to handle multiple languages. Internationalization. Difficult, multi-syllable word.
This can be split into two sub-problems. First, handling other languages. Usually it means non-English, but “language nationalism” applies to other software too. Ruby, for example can handle Japanese strings out of the box, but you have to enable […]