Author: Marc

TiVo

Yahoo and TiVo working together

I'm happy to see this partnership between two of my favorite companies. Under a partnership announced Monday, the two will collaborate to offer Yahoo's Internet-based content and services through TiVo's digital video recording...

General

Unison: file synchronizer

Sort of like rsync, but it can sync changes on either side (reporting when there are unresolvable conflicts of course). Interesting - I could imagine this being used as the basis for PIM or database synchronization, for backup...

Programming

Web search job openings at Yahoo!

Yahoo! Search has dozens of openings for Engineers and Scientists with significant applicable experience. I've listed many of their openings. (more…)...

General

Oracle to release free version of 10g

Wow, Oracle is planning to release a free version of their database to compete with open-source databases like MySQL.

C++Programming

Exceptions vs. status codes

Here's a great post about exceptions vs. status codes. The author is very much in the exception camp but he cites a Joel on Software post that argues against exceptions and there is some interesting discussion in the comments....

General

Breakfast at the Prolific Oven

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Music

Random music fact of the day

Did you know that Bruce Springsteen wrote "Blinded by the Light" - that weird song where everybody mishears the lyrics? I had no idea. I've only ever heard the version by Manfred Mann. Thanks to Joe for pointing this out to me in...