Dave Unsolicited

I end up in the middle of many interesting discussions. I've decided to make a page dedicated to sharing those opinions I'm fond of. If you see something you like (or don't), drop me an email about it (jeske@chat.net) and maybe we can both learn something.

I have started to publish more recent stores to a blog.

["C# checked exception proposal"] - a proposal for adding checked exceptions to C# which compromises between providing typesafe exceptions and adding programmer work to avoid the annoyance of Java's checked exception mechanism
["ATI Radeon Windows driver bug causes Java 1.4.1 to lock machine"] - a software bug which ate too much of my time.
["A Justification for Virtual Machines"] - comments about why VMs should replace traditional compilers
["Problems with RDBMS"] - comments about trouble in Oracle
["BBS/Gtalk History"] - an interview starter about the BBS/Gtalk days.
["App-wrappers yet again"] - a conversation with Stig Hackvän 8/17/01 ]
["Free Text Indexing Tools]
["SCM/Source Control Thoughts (take 2)" - my thoughts on Source Control philosophy 3/1/99]
["SCM/Source Control Thoughts (take 1)" - my thoughts on Source Control philosophy 3/1/99]
["Packrat throughts" - discussion about my email-in-a-sql-database project 11/30/98]
["VSTa App-Encap" - more thoughts on app encapsulation 12/1/98]
["NeXT App-Wrapper Description" - my description of how the NeXT App-Wrapper system worked. 10/12/98]
["UNIX/Linux Usability Ideas" - comments to the www.seul.org project. 11/5/98]
["My MS OSS/Halloween Comments" - comments on the Microsoft OpenSource paper referred to as the Halloween paper. 11/3/98]
["Win vs. UNIX Usability" - comments to the Gnome mailing list 9/98]
["App-Encap and Transparent Installation" - comments to the Gnome mailing list 9/98]
["Metadata and Encapsulation in Filesystems" - comments to the Gnome mailing list 8/98]
["COM Thoughts" - my comments about the good and bad sides of COM 8/98]
["Application Encapsulation Ideas" - comments tot he KDE mailing list 8/98]
["IMAP problems" - a list of deficiencies in IMAP started 5/6/98]
["Contexts" - a generalization of variable storage control 2/20/98]
[Car Stereo 2/98] Car Stereo Replacement HOWTO
[Car Research 2/98] New Car Purchase Research (compilation)
[Computer Systems Software 12/97] Systems Opinions
[Computers 10/95] "Reduced Momentum, Increased Flexibility."