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Why I’m not using DigiSpark’s ATTiny85 in Almost Everything

Written by Tim on February 14, 2017

The DigiStump ATTiny85 board  is a really attractive bit of hardware. It’s cheap, it can be accessed via the on-board USB connector, and while it hasn’t got the advanced hardware features of its bigger kin, there are a lot of things you can do with its small number of ports, ( more… )

Posted In Bad Practices | Hardware | Internet of Things | Random maniacal ravings
Tagged Arduino | ATTiny85 | DigiSpark | Digistump

Gnome Evolution is an Abomination and gnome-keyring should die in a fire!

Written by Tim on August 7, 2014

Really. Between Evolution’s penchant for creating non-deletable – and defective – account associations and gnome-keyring’s useless pop-up dialogs, the whole thing almost makes Microsoft Windows seem attractive. Then again, gnome is, by and large, a slavish attempt to imitate many of Windows’ more obnoxious features. Like the Windows Registry. Honestly. ( more… )

Posted In Bad Practices | Better Software Design | Random maniacal ravings
Tagged Evolution | gnome-keyring | rant

Why Do-it-Yourself Java Security is a BAD THING

Written by Tim on November 10, 2008

One of my greatest peeves in working with Java in the Enterprise is the fact that everyone+dog seems to think they can do a better job on application security than the Java architects. OK, so there’s some really awful stuff that’s part of the Java standards, but nevertheless, rolling your ( more… )

Posted In Better Software Design | Enterprise Java | Random maniacal ravings
Tagged design | security

Why Software Projects Should Not Depend on an IDE

Written by Tim on November 10, 2008

disclaimer: I’m about to show my age. My first “IDE” was an IBM 029 keypunch machine. I keyed programs in FORTRAN, COBOL, Assembler and PL/1. When I messed up, I threw away the defective cards and punched new ones. After waiting in line for a free keypunch machine. Over the ( more… )

Posted In Better Software Design | Enterprise Java | Random maniacal ravings
Tagged IDE

Hello world!

Written by Tim on May 29, 2008

And we’re off to the races.

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