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I had not been on an airplane since early 2000, so heightened airport security was just news stories to me. For our vacation, though, we were not only flying, but flying out of the country, so we were preparing ourselves and the kids for all of the non-flying standing around we would be doing.
As it […]

If there’s one thing that programmers dislike more than writing documentation of their code, it’s creating diagrams of their code. For Java developers, the Javadoc tool was a huge step forward, letting you create up-to-date browsable documentation in a heartbeat. Now you can do the same thing with UML thanks to the good folks who […]

First it was Studs Terkel suggesting it during a keynote introduction two years ago; now it’s Molly Ivins in an op-ed column, and John Nichols suggesting it’s not a silly notion: let’s get Bill Moyers to run for president.
When I first heard Studs Terkel mention it at the 2003 National Conference on Media Reform, it […]