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Stroke UX, Synthetic Life and BMW: Geometry and Functions In N Adaptions
Three videos that made me think: How it feels to have a stroke (TED Talks) Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened -- as
Open Source in a SaaS World
About a year ago, I took part in a meeting where the question: "What does open source "mean" in a SaaS world?" came up in conversation. A year later, that same question is becoming increasingly pertinent as the IT industry's move to Software-as-a-Se
The Third Order of Order
I'm thoroughly enjoying David Weinberger's Everything Is Miscellaneous (The Power of the New Digital Disorder). Weinberger has a canny knack for taking a subject matter I feel I'm already familiar with and yet illuminating and expressing facets of it
Classic Raymond Chen
Here's some classic Raymond Chen: "Apparently I've been promoted by mistake all these years".
Chris Anderson: Charlie Rose interview discussing FREE
I spent some time this morning watching the Charlie Rose interview with Wired's editor, Chris Anderson, discussing FREE. The interview covers the economics and ideas driving the Internet's current (and future) state: the Gift Economy; the Attention E
Designing Web APIs - Twitter Learnings
Although I made it to Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last week, I didn't make it to a session Matt McAlister blogged about by TwitterÂ’s Alex Payne and Michael Migurski of Stamen Design who presented learnings from the perspective of an API provider. B
The Efficiency of (the) American English Language
As I've come to learn while living in the US, the American English language is more efficient than its British English cousin. The difference between the two languages is more than just fonetic phonetic simplification - the general rule seems to be a
So...what?
About four years ago I wrote a post (on my old blog) about some of the verbal tics and language use I encountered at Microsoft (memetic habits I inevitably picked up myself). My observations centered around the use of the word "so", example: "So, h
Bungee Connect news x3 to share with you this morning
Three big pieces of Bungee Connect news to share with you this morning: 1. Bungee Grid now running on Amazon EC2 and accessible to Bungee Developers Bungee-powered application hosting on Bungee Grid-EC2 using AmazonÂ’s Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) i
So what is this Platform as a Service thing?
The "platform-as-a-service", or PaaS meme is getting more air play the last 24 hours as news of Google App Engine makes its way through the tech media and blogs. ReadWriteWeb has a good write up and Phil Wainewright's summation by declaring "Let the
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Ruby-on-Rails Start-up Gets $6.2m in Funding
Ruby On Rails News Desk wrote: FiveRuns Corporation, a pioneer of monitoring products for Ruby on Rails, described by some as the new Java, has gotten $6.2 million in funding from Austin Ventures. The money is earmarked for acceleration product development, sales and marketin...
AJAXWorld Conference Announces "Ruby on Rails" Session
online shopping wrote: There's definitely something to be said for Resource Oriented Architecture in terms of simplicity but let's move on and start discussing not how simplistic it is when pitted against Service Oriented Architecture but how useful it is. Take a look at the ...
Testing in Ruby on Rails
Ruby on Rails News Desk wrote: You've just finished writing your Ruby on Rails application, your test suite tests your models and controllers in depth, but you still can't tell from your tests if your RJS responses are functioning properly, or if a Javascript error is happeni...
Microsoft Distributes Pre-Alpha Code of IronRuby for Silverlight
Silverlight News Desk wrote: Microsoft has sent out pre-alpha code of IronRuby, its version of the Ruby language that will let developers write .NET programs in, well, Ruby and suggestively IE and the Safari browser programs using the soon-to-be Adobe Flash-like Silverlight 1...
Ruby on Gears Will Exhibit at the Enterprise Open Source Conference & Expo This Week
Ruby on Gears News wrote: Ruby on Gears is a content plus framework built in 100% Ruby on top of the popular Ruby on Rails. Ruby on Gears provides a turn-key user & administration environment suitable for CRM, Project Management, Document Management, Corporate Intranets, Expe...
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