Magazine Articles
Here are some of the articles I have written. I will list magazines & dates as I track that down. As best as I can estimate I have written about 30 articles but most of them I no longer have a copy of. Click on the description text to see the article.

Product Review: JProbe
An article in JavaPro reviewing JProbe.

Product Review: IntelliJ IDEA
An article in JavaPro reviewing IntelliJ.
My comments on what needs to be added to IntelliJ.

JRun - Installing & Testing
Installing JRun
Testing JRun
Connecting JRun to SQL Server

RTF Specification
The RTF spec has a bunch of unclear items. This is my attempt to answer what I know.

Tomcat & IIS
How to get Tomcat to work with IIS.

Bitmap Resolution
Bitmap independent method of determining the bitmap pixel size in Java

The Testing Process
This article discusses why unit testing is so important and how to go about doing it.

Test Tools
What testing tools to use when testing.

Microsoft vs. U.S. Department of Justice
This is the first of two op-ed pieces I wrote about the anti-trust suit.
This is the second.

Total World Domination
(note: This is the original document - The New Republic edited it quite a bit before publishing - but this is the only electronic copy I have.) This was written several years ago (pre-Internet and pre-DOJ lawsuit) about where Microsoft was headed.

Mea Culpa
This article discusses how my view of managing software developers has evolved over the last several years.

Managing Software Development
This is an article written on managing software development that was written many many years ago - and I still get comments about it. My views have changed a little from this - but most still holds true.

Software Patents
My take on software patents. Written at the time of the Microsoft vs Apple lawsuit.

A Japan that can Fail
I wrote this article about why Japanese companies were not going to be very successful developing software. A number of Japanese developers I know found that it struck very true. And the painful truth has been - that Japanese companies still are not a power in the software world.

Bugs
An article about why the industry ships buggy software. Alas, this is still the situation today.

Goodbye for Now
An article I wrote for Game Developer Magazine about why I left the gaming industry. I received a lot of e-mail from other game developers saying that they felt the same way about things.

Eliminating Jitter
This article describes how to properly paint to a window without having it flicker on the screen during the paint.

BIT-BLT
A program that writes does a scaling BIT-BLT by writing the machine code and calling it on the fly.

Binary Search
A very efficient binary search algorithm that eliminates the need to use the divide instruction (still the most expensive application op-code). My first article.

BoundsChecker
A review of BoundsChecker.

File Open
How to properly open a file in DOS.

Debugging Alloc
A malloc/realloc/free wrapper for debugging. Written before there was a SmartHeap or BoundsChecker.

Temp Files
An article on how to have high-speed, large temporary files under DOS.

TSR
How to write a Terminate & Stay Resident DOS program.