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Kathryn Huxtable

Kathryn Huxtable

Dithering about phones and tablets

Those who know me know that I’ve been dithering about mobile phones and internet tablets for some months now. I’d like a larger screen than my iPhone 3G has, but I consider the iPad a bit large. And it doesn’t make calls. I was rather hoping for

Arduino is fun

So I have long been irritated at the lack of flexibility of the sort of programmable thermostats you can get through the retail market, e.g. Home Depot, Lowe’s, etc. I’ve wanted to make my own. Now, thanks to the Arduino platform I can do it with a

Interesting post about privacy from James Fallows

So James Fallows posted “Avatar” Life in the Digital Age on his Atlantic blog. He quoted a college student (“Will S.”) he knows as saying: My existence on the internet might be with my real name, but my suspicion is that the vast majority of people are creating Avatars of

Against iPhone Framework

I’ve gotten past my general disgust at the look of the Objective-C language. After all, I programmed a lot of Perl over the years. But no garbage collection on the iPhone? This is 2010! You’ve got to be kidding me! “Hiya developers, hiya, hiya, hiya. We’ve got

IOS 4 (formerly iPhone OS 4)

The Gold Master of IOS 4 was released to developers this week. I downloaded it and installed it on my iPhone 3G, which is the oldest hardware it will run on. It runs a bit slowly, but that’s to be expected. There are features such as the multitasking that

DTerm is a great app for the Mac

I’ve been using git for awhile now and I also use Eclipse as my IDE. Eclipse doesn’t yet have good support for git, though they’re working on it. So I do a lot of command line git commands. I found the DTerm app and it’s great!

Tandoori Chicken

Servings: 4 Source: Cooks Illustrated Ingredients 2 tablespoons vegetable oil 6 medium garlic gloves 2 tbsp 2 tablespoons fresh ginger grated 1 tablespoon garam masala 2 teaspoons ground cumin 2 teaspoons chili powder 1 cup whole-milk yogurt 4 tablespoons lime juice reserve lime wedges 2 teaspoons table salt 3 pounds

XCode still sucks

Nope. I was right the first time. XCode sucks.

Getting back to work on Sea Glass

I’ve been taking a break for the past month or so, playing with mobile device development. I’ll get back to that, but it’s time to get back to work on Sea Glass.

Databases - persistence layer or primary entity?

So a couple of weeks ago I was in San Francisco talking with Ken Orr and my old high school/college friend Stan Switzer and Stan was holding forth on an idea that I think is pretty self-evidently true. This is that when considering software systems, the database is the