Logiciel Libre

IDEs … I’m always interesting in how people actually write code. Ask Slashdot recently spurned an interesting debate by asking asking whether or not students should be taught an intro to Python or Java course using an IDE. I kept finding my self re-agreeing with different posters.

Native X/VNC … Forest showed me a really neat trick using Xorg and VNC that appears to come stock with Fedora Core 4. Simple and efficient desktop sharing is fairly new for GNU/Linux, so, cool!

Alloy … A colleague of mine, Dick Wurdack, turned me on to a design analysis tool called Alloy. I’m still learning it, but it looks to be a pretty useful arrow for the quiver.

Anyone remember a time about 15 years ago before there were any teriyaki joints? Soon after, they began popping up everywhere, and with near identical menus, flavors, and atmospheres. There had to have been some secret congress deep underground, where would-be teriyaki entrepreneurs got together to plan their delicious rampage across the nation. Why are all teriyaki restaurants so similar? Is there some unofficial franchise manifesto they all adhere to? Why do they exist at all? And why is it so damn good?

I love teriyaki.