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Tim Bray has just  joined Sun  (congratulations, Sun). One of the interesting snippets in the middle of the article was: In fact I personall...

Sue Spielman just called. Apparently the  Pragmatic Starter Kit  just won a Jolt Productivity Award. I’m blown away: we had some stiff compe...

My Powerbook’s hard drive came to a sticky end yesterday. Almost literally. Starting in the morning, it seemed to “stick” every now and then...

If I’ve been distracted recently, it’s because Andy and I’ve been heads-down getting our third book finalized. When we first started  Pragma...

What can we do about the tradeoff between flexibility and convenience in interface design? Do users want us to provide just the means to get...

Over on the ruby-talk mailing list, why the lucky stiff just announced a new version of the Syck library (it reads and writes the excellent ...

It’s been a busy couple of months here as we prepare to launch our new book-printing imprint,  The Pragmatic Bookshelf . We spent the year w...