This morning I was walking the dog and thinking about a few different projects I'm working on. I seem to always have 4-5 "big" projects going on and my thoughts tend to bounce between them. Often, when I let my mind wander like this, I come across some...

I had a double major in college, but it was two highly related degrees. I had friends, however, who double majored in things like Economics and Music, or Psychology and Education, or Computer Science and Anthropology. You could argue whether the different...

While I was traveling earlier this month, I read Dreaming in Code. I sat down to write this post thinking I was going to write a review of the book but 1) I don't like to write book reviews, and 2) this book has been reviewed to death. I do, however,...

Shrini posted earlier this week asking about equivalence class partitioning (ecp). I posted some comments on his site, and wanted to elaborate a bit as a preamble to an upcoming post. Creating equivalence classes, in their most basic form, are something...

I don't write much about my job at Microsoft. I'm in a weird role (weird for me, at least) where I'm not working on a product - I work in an organization that primarily does technical training for engineers within the company and works on various cross...

こんにちわ。I am currently above the Pacific, about two hours outside of Narita airport in Tokyo. Next week I will be teaching a few courses at the Microsoft facility in the Tokyo area. Given my schedule of late, the long flight has been quite a break. I watched...