A colleague emailed me this link to an article, which depicts a mostly accurate picture of MUMPS technology stigma. Being a life-long programmer myself of several languages, SDKs, APIs, and other assorted tools, I believe I can speak objectively about MUMPS as a programming language and as a career path. But be warned! [...]
Archive for March, 2008
Caché: FTW!
Mar 22
ClanLib and the GIMP
Mar 13
A few months ago, I took on a small project to replace my home arcade system’s user interface. Not that there was anything functionally wrong with the original, but it had a certain lackluster appeal to it. It was written in C and used the portable SDL library for managing the menu interface [...]
Vista games
Mar 2
Got the chance to play some of the games that come with Vista Ultimate, such as Hold ‘em and Hearts. I like playing Hearts and I like controlling the Queen of Spades. I especially like running the table and skunking the remaining players, as shown to the right, especially if it earns me the win.
To my [...]
