On Thanksgiving Day, 1999, I quit programming. Just walked away. After nineteen years, I had enough. I was done. But I am getting ahead of myself. In 1990 I had a startup software company that I loved. It was called Frontline Software Technology. Now, Frontline was, by just about every conceivable business measure, a sad little enterprise. We were very small, […]
Feeling Bad For Microsoft
I don’t normally spend much time feeling bad for Microsoft. As a longtime Xinu/Unix/Linux fan, I have long maintained a skeptical attitude towards them. But last week I read something which made me pause for a moment. At the All Things Digital conference, sponsored by the Wall Street Journal, Microsoft had to glumly sit by while the […]
G2S – Why Should I Care?
There’s been much talk in the last few years about server-based gaming and G2S (the new web-based Game To System messaging protocol from the Gaming Standards Association), but most folks out there are wondering why they should pay more than a couple of seconds attention to this new phenomenon. Fifteen years ago, folks were saying the […]
Greetings and Salutations
Hello world. That is how these things always start out – at least when you are a programmer. Or maybe: System.out.println(“Hello world”); This is my first entry, so I thought I would introduce myself. My name is Marty and I work here at RadBlue. I do lots of different things, but my main job to […]
