Scott MacHaffie

A writer writes something, revises it repeatedly, then ships it.
A programmer writes something, ships it, then revises it repeatedly.

If you have young children, you may have found that some of the popular sites for TV characters have simple online games.
It looks to me like these games are contracted out to separate companies.  Even within a site, the games have different artwork (for the most part, although the main characters seem to be consistent, […]

If you are interested in developing for Palm OS, then you probably want the Palm OS Development Suite (now called the Garnet OS Development Suite…the initials mean something, I’m sure…)
After some searching, this appears to be the correct link: http://www.accessdevnet.com/index.php/Garnet-OS-Development-Suite/View-category.html

I decided to improve the weightings in my chess program, and I wanted to learn more about genetic algorithms.
The basic idea in genetic algorithms is that you have some population of solutions (weightings, in this case), you have an evaluation function, and you have an evolution or mutation function that takes the results of the […]

Economists love to talk about the “economy of scale”–basically, the idea that a bigger company can produce things less expensively than a smaller company.
However, they don’t talk about the diseconomy of scale.  Let’s take software as an example, and Microsoft as our big company.  (Disclaimer: I don’t work at Microsoft, nor have I ever worked […]