Author Archives: Sam

This coming Tuesday, April 2, marks our state’s Republican presidential primary. Have you decided which candidate to support? Three of our candidates (and our current president) are agitating for yet another war in the Middle East, despite never having been attacked by Iran. Three of our candidates (and our current president) are happy that the [...]

Just dropping in to commend iA Writer for their keyboard. I absolutely love that they have forward and back cursor controls (letters by letter or word by word), and the other extra bits up there are useful, too. I wish this was the default onscreen keyboard for the iPad; it would make my life so [...]

TDD is no replacement for good design and architecture. I shouldn’t have to say this, but the more I read about TDD, the more I see people saying they aren’t sold on it, because even when they use it they discover their app is designed wrong for the actual requirements, and now they have to [...]

I finally did it. I resisted through the first two generations (not entirely voluntarily), but I am now the proud father of a third-generation iPad. Having spent the last three days in essentially constant interaction with the device, I consider myself well-prepared to review it. Mine is the 32-GB, wifi-only model, in black. I see [...]

Today is Super Tuesday! Today, several states will be holding their primaries and caucuses, as we work to select the next Republican candidate for President of the United States. This year’s crop: Georgia, Idaho, Massachusetts, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, and Alaska. Given that great excitement today and the importance of the results [...]