In August 2008 my old laptop bit the dust. Everyone was raving about Macs and I saw some good developers using them. This, and the fact I was such an Apple fanboy in my youth, convinced me that it was time for this prodigal Mac son to come home. I...

This summer in Berlin I took a vacation from making choices, and let my friends run my life. Really. For one week, anyone who was my friend on Facebook could edit my calendar, and I ran my life according to that calendar. Inspired by the popularity...

Starsky and Hutch A TED Talk from Cynthia Schneider about “Idol TV” reminded me of a paragraph from Niel Stephenson’s  In the beginning was the command line: We seem much more comfortable with propagating those values to future generations...

The general thought in user interface design is to make the interface (webpage, software, physical device, whatever) be intuitive to the user. In other words, when the user performs an action in the interface, the product should do what the user...

RC4 is little bit of computer code that you probably use every day without knowing. It quite possibly made the web into a viable business platform by providing a means for secure monetary transactions online. The original code was created by RSA...