The next 10,000 hours

Well, not entirely – but after about 10 years as an emacs fan, I’m giving up on it as my default gui text editor. The reason? It’s just too darn ugly on an LCD, and all my work machines now use LCDs. There is no anti-aliased text or subpixel rendering without pain – quite a [...]

I haven’t blogged in a while, was waiting to getting around to revamping my web server… but I couldn’t resist blogging this: http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/ Basically, it’s a toolkit for writing applications in Java, which are then automagically converted into a Javascript/Html client making Ajax calls to a Java webapp. So you can write a gui webapp, [...]