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Tuesday, November 19, 2002
Wow, I'm caught napping once again and missed this one. Our own Matt Pope, quoted on the front page of the Boston Globe business section! Cool enough. Highlights:
''Let's say you're in a meeting,'' Pope said as he placed his Tablet flat on a conference table.
Matt, you know I hate meetings.
''Let's say I'm a doctor, or a nurse, or a sales guy,'' he said.
Nurse Matt. There's an image I'm going to have to try to get out of my head.
And who's going to use this technology? That's when Pope started impersonating lab technicians, mobile salespeople, and hospital staffers.
He does a great Dirty Harry impersonation when I'm late on a deliverable too ;)
1:12:41 PM
Sam just sent me a link to a new O'Reilly article describing the changes in the c++ compiler for Everett. It looks like those folks have been busy and I'm super psyched to see such huge progress in c++. I love c++ because it gives me that Swiss Army Knife approach that I was talking about.
I'm sure all my game developer friends are going to love this one, especially the /arch:SSE2 flag. I was briefed on Katmai as it was called then by Intel and at the time we were rolling our eyes and thinking, "yeah, this looks cool, but how are we ever going to use it?". Later Intel took our lighting code and hand optimized it for MMX2. It was a sad reflection on them I guess that they were the only ones who could code to their chip. Also note that this was around 3 years ago, so its taken a while to get here!
So much loving goodness here.. can't wait to try some of this out, especially mixing managed c++/winforms and pure unfettered unmanaged c++ fun. And I'm off right now to read more of Sam's most excellent book!
11:06:29 AM
We're still investigating the case of the NEBC rider with no legs. Details at 11.
10:18:00 AM
