Archive for June, 2006

New desk and computer center

Sunday, June 11th, 2006

Well, the time has finally come to take the home computer center to the next level. But this time, it is all about physical comfort, rather than raw processing power or network capacity. I have found Apprion to be invigorating, but (surprise, surprise!) time-intensive: it does require a lot of time-in-the-chair. I thought about this […]

The end of an era

Saturday, June 10th, 2006

A few months ago, the 30-year-old C/C++ Users Journal printed its last issue, and notified me that my remaining balance would be transferred to Dr. Dobb’s Journal (DDJ). At the time, I assumed that this was due perhaps to not enough programmers wanting to read only about C++.  And after all, other publications have always done […]