Chris Rathjen

Can you trust the meaning of an exit code from an app of which you have no specific knowledge? I wouldn’t recommend it. But what James and I are wondering is, can you at least trust an application to only return zero if nothing bad happened? Version Control Read More...

So, I got to watch some of the spectacular side effects of driving while cradling a cell phone on the way home yesterday. You know, the mile-long backup from a trivial accident, and the countless near misses behind it as drivers with cell phones change Read More...

Of course I'll go with the default answer to all computing questions: "It depends." I've seen this question, or a variation of it, come up several times lately. The most recent variation I saw was a forum post , to which Buck provided a pretty complete Read More...