Archive for 'programming'

Web Session Patent Awarded

I just found out that the U.S. Patent office issued patent number 7,188,176 naming me as primary inventor for an “Apparatus, system, and method for maintaining a persistent data state on a communications network”. I’m pretty stunned. I did the work for this back in 1998 for Priceline and they filed for the [...]

Stiff asks, great programmers answer

I ran across this questionairre last summer. It’s one of those cool ideas that can probably only be done a handful of times (maybe only once). Anyway, this guy sent 10 questions to some of the most famous / interesting programmers he could think of and actually got responses.
Some of my favorite questions/answers:

Q: [...]