August 2009
19 posts
The History and Future of Unix in 4 Paragraphs
I’m currently using OS X and Linux for my development work, and was curious about the origins. I found this long post on faqs.org and thought I’d sum up Unix’s history in a few paragraphs. Unix was invented at Bell Laboratories between 1969 and 1971 by Ken Thompson on an already obsolete DEC PDP-7, before computers generally even had monitors. The name of this skunk-works OS...
Programming and SEO
Sherlock Holmes was always characterized by Watson as being like a hound in pursuit of his quarry, determinedly following the scent. I get that feeling every time I’m programming and DOING THE RIGHT THINGS. Programming is most satisfying when you’re right at the edge of your comfort-level, and you’re starting to challenge yourself, but not TOO MUCH that you cause frustration....
Doing Something Big
My “something big’s” seem to come in 5-year intervals, because the result of that big something appears to have about 5-years of life in it before I feel the world has changed sufficiently to warrent a large overhaul of my methodologies and workflow. Now is such a time. In 2000, it was a generalized system akin to Ruby on Rails for the digital signage folks, Scala, Inc. In 2004,...
