Erik Engbrecht's Blog

Engineering in general, and software engineering in particular, is all about abstraction. The creation and utilization of abstractions is ...

A few weeks ago my wife's Lenovo laptop caught a really nasty virus. Symantec antivirus couldn't clean it up. But I had recovery m...

When I was a kid, I hated onions, green peppers, and mushrooms. I used to tell people I was allergic to mushrooms so they wouldn't try t...

Tim Bray just posted a blog about how Enterprise IT is doing it wrong .   I can't really argue with that. He goes on to explain that E...

There's been a lot of discussion of the Scala actors library lately, much of it critical, and a recent flurry of alternate implementatio...