Technology

Recently a friend and I had a conversation about the quality of programmers in the workplace. Without delving too deeply into the specifics (so as not to get anyone in trouble), we discussed various metrics for measuring programmers and how they perform. That conversation, along with a recent talk I heard about quality of code, leads to the conclusion that as systems get more and more complex in our society, quality of code, effected by the quality of programmers, will become a serious matter. ...

Last Friday, June 29th, Apple released the iPhone. I waited in line on Friday to see the phone and I have to say I was quite impressed with the overall quality of the phone. It was almost exactly as I had expected. To follow is a short review of the iPhone and my thoughts of the initial release. Let it be said that I successfully made it out of the store without buying one (believe me that was hard). I would also like to point out that this work is not all my own. Some of the discoveries below were made by a very nice gentleman named Chris who I ran into at one of the stores. ...