• Lazarus 1.8.4 has been released. Bug-fix release but still worth having. Go get it!
• From the Questions-I-Never-Thought-to-Ask Department: How was sheet music written after quill pens but before computers? With a music typewriter, of course.
• How to become a morning person. Yes, there are ( Read more... )

I haven't done a lot of programming for the last couple of ( Read more... )

• Somebody over at USA Today seems to think that Colorado is just a little too high... (Thanks to Sarah Hoyt for the link.)
• Not new news, but startling: They're still digging up live, century-old ordnance in France and Belgium. I suspect they'll still be digging it up a century from now.
• Here's an overview of how to write custom components for the ( Read more... )

• Lazarus 1.6 has been released. It was built with FreePascal 3.0.0, a first for Lazarus. Mostly incremental changes, but there's a new rev of the docked form editor that looks promising, even though it's not quite stable yet. Wish I had more time to play with it!
• Older versions of Lazarus have run well on the Raspberry Pi for ( Read more... )

• Here's a nice rant about something that's always bothered me: that programming is more difficult than it has to bethat programmers revel in its difficulty, and ceaselessly ridicule ( Read more... )

• Yet another take on the Amazon vs. Hachette dust-up: The publishers contributed to Amazon's monopsony power by demanding platform lock-in via Kindle DRM. And now they're surprised that Amazon controls the ebook market. (Thanks to Eric Bowersox for the link.)
• Pete Albrecht sent word that some guys at the University of Rochester have figured out how ( Read more... )

Wait. Oh. That's all there is.

Really.

I had this problem once before, with the Atlantis word processor. It's 5MB installed. 5. The first time I installed it I suspected I had downloaded a corrupt file, but no: However they did it, the wizards over at Atlantis implemented a damned fine Word 2000 clone in 5MB. It doesn't have the collaboration ( Read more... )