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 and maybe we can both learn something.

(email is first name and first initial of last name at gmail.com)

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]
["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."