Mike-O-Matic

As many of my friends know, I used to play bass in an indie pop band called Spudnik.   The “band” started with Phil (a former bandmate in the aptly-named LisaLovesMilhouse) and I exchanging tracks online that we would reformulate into songs.  I was in exile in Albany, New York, at the time, so we had […]

Languages consist of two main parts: A syntax with which to tell the computer how to do things, and a set of built-in classes or functions that give the programmer an environment to interact with. When thinking about Wonton, I don’t believe the former will represent a radical departure from other languages available […]

The other day at work an interesting debate unfolded. I’m sure anybody working at a Type 1 organizations similar to the one in question can relate to this:
New developer comes into a workplace, flailing his arms in the air.
“The new site will be wonderful!” he exclaims. “Normalized databases! Wonderful new PHP framework! […]

Whenever you go to create something new, it helps to ask: Why am I doing this? Of course this answer can be different to everyone. Take songwriting for instance. Some people do it because they love playing musical instruments, and making songs is the best way they can think of of doing […]

Today Jessy and I are heading home from Hawaii. Naturally we got to the airport about 4 hours early; the Honolulu rush hour we left early to avoid never materialized, and the car rental place was much more hassle-free than we anticipated. Also, there was no security line. Go figure.
Hawaii […]

So I’m going to Hawaii this week for some much needed rest and relaxation. I can almost feel the non-stop 75 degree cloudless weather, beautiful beaches, and overpriced tourist traps. Sigh. I am going with my good friend Jessy and it will be her first time there. Hopefully I haven’t […]

As I’ve started development on Wonton, the first step was to determine the protocol for the server. There was a time when this was a fairly complicated thing; you had to set up your server sockets, figure out how you wanted to structure your messages, build parsers and handle errors, set up your client […]