New GNU and Sun C/C++ Compilers
Good news for C and C++ coders lately. First, GCC 4.2 is out, and while GCC 4.1.X generally received poor reviews and little adoption, 4.2 is looking pretty solid with large projects like FreeBSD and Debian already making the jump on their development branches. My prediction is that 4.2 will be the release that gets [...]
In Portland for RailsConf
Just a quick note to say that I’ll be in Portland for RailsConf for the rest of the week. If you’re in town and want to say hi that would be awesome. I’ll be at the DTrace BOF Thursday evening (20:30) and attending Joyent’s APPy Hour Friday and Saturday from 15:30 to 17:30. I’ll also [...]
My first podcast
I recorded some thoughts for David that he’s posted on Joyeur, Joyent’s blog. He called it “Side of Mayo: Episode 1″, which I suppose implies I’m going to be doing more of these.
Topics include some F5 load balancer lovin’, OpenSolaris iSCSI target disapointment, with some GPL talk thrown in for good measure. It’s [...]
Virtuoso Joshua Bell in a DC metro station
Really neat Washington Post article about what happens when you drop one of the world’s greatest violinists into a busy metro station and let him play for 45 minutes. The result is probably “predictable”, but it’s worth reading for the interviews of the passerbys alone. I found the comment on how children *always* stopped and [...]