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There was a book on this a few years back: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0140167129/jimloyshom...

Sony Duo 11. I have one as my primary dev machine and it works pretty well + I can play Civ 5 on the plane.

Well there is me. I wanted a dev machine that I could use as a desktop, laptop or occasional tablet. I ended up with a Sony Vaio Duo which is pretty good at what I want. Or there i…

How the hell can a doctors visit run to $800?

I'd drop serious dollars on one of these if it had more ram and storage.

Windows 8 supports multitouch trackpads on new computers. Many older laptops can also get gesture support with the correct drivers. My 18 month old laptop has pinch support + all t…

For our CEO and GM, that's true. Add a citrix client and it could be an only computer for the rest of our staff except for me.

This post would have made a lot more sense if I had the slightest idea who any of the sports players or teams were.

Driving to ski fields will be fun:)

A friend of mine had $3m stolen by his business partner who simply wrote out $500k cheques and took them to the bank. The bank oked the cheques despite knowing that he had no signi…

Could you do this with a high strength magnetic ring?

Your blog doesn't support comments. Is that a feature too? As a developer I sympathise, but as a user I don't. I can understand not supporting IE 6 and 7, but not supporting 8 and …

For all you ever wanted to know about removing drm: http://apprenticealf.wordpress.com/

Win Phone 7 Mango (should be released later this month, can get it now if you know where to look) has an IE9 based browser that supports html 5 etc

The moment a decent windows 8 tablet comes out, the iPads in our company will be gone.

The thing is that you will have a choice. I'll be able to get a 17" hex core, dual HD power machine while my wife/kids can have a arm powered tablet. Both machines will be able to …

I have come to the conclusion that 0 based indexing is basically building "off by one errors" as a language feature. The fact that for(int i = 0; i A better for loop would be somet…

It's different in new Zealand. If you don't like the waiting list you can have private insuanace or pay yourself for a private hospital. We did this when my wife had a melanoma. Wa…

Australia requires a different version of many games because it has more stringent age ratings. This means that a separate distribution agreement is required for Oz (and thus for n…

If driverless cars start reducing the car road toll then motorbikes will start to look really dangerous:(. I suppose we could get self driving motorbikes but that would be missing …

IIUI Anders isn't suggesting that null isn't necessary, but that you should be able to say in code: this type does not allow nulls (or this type does allow nulls). We have this wit…

>> WinPho is bad Win Phone is fantastic but incomplete. I.e. not all the api's are there but the bits that are there work well. I haven't used the latest xcode, but when I was deve…

Why USA only? Makes it unusable for me:(.

And if delphi had complete GC, i would probably still be using it for new projects.