When you're struck with writer's block, you're supposed to just write anything. This is what I just churned out instead of my next column:
more ...I was awakened by my phone. You got used to that living on The Big Island. It's already noon on Wall Street by the time the …
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more ...*[Cory Doctorow]{style=""}: I reivewed Raph Koster's brilliant Theory of Fun book (think of it as an Understanding Comics for games) here before, and now I'm delighted to see that Raph's posted a tremendous, graphic-rich picture-book in PDF format detailing the notions from the game. 4.7MB PDF Link …
I love the idea of outsourcing to rural parts of the country … [via]{style="FONT-STYLE: italic"} [Marquee de Sells: Chris's insight outlet]
As a person who’s “outsourced“ himself, first to :45 minutes from San Francisco and now to 3,000 miles from the mainland, there’s a certain temptation …
more ...Dammit. The trailer for Star Wars 3: The Revenge of the Sith, actually looks good! I just know I'm going to get my heart broken again...[via]{style="FONT-STYLE: italic"} [Marquee de Sells: Chris's insight outlet]
Dang, it does look good. Mostly because it features 3 characters from the original …
more ...more ...*Mark Frauenfelder*: The city of Pleasanton, California has come up with a funny way to punish speeders:
[The] city's traffic engineers have created a traffic signal with attitude. It senses when a speeder is approaching and metes out swift punishment. It doesn't write a ticket. It immediately turns from green …
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more ...[Browsing Freshmeat this morning and I noticed that DB40 has gone open source…. db4objects - native Java and .NET open source object database engine and is well worth a look. [Via]{style="font-style:italic"} [Fast Takes]]{style=""}
Ah! Object databases. Always have been The Next Big Thing. And I’m …
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more ...We announced it last week, but the DSL Tools home page just went live today. The big thing is the Microsoft Tools for Domain Specific Languages Technology Preview. There's also a walkthru of the tool, a newsgroup and Jochen's blog. We also published the third article in the Software …
My latest column for SD Times is a bit of spleen-venting about stupid MBAs who believe that the loss of technical expertise is fine: “[F]uture entrepreneurs and great businesspeople will come from the countries where the work is done, not from a country whose 'comparative advantage' is reduced to …
more ...Jon Udell's recent forays into making movies of software inspired me to take this video of “Pynk,” my interactive Python IDE for the TabletPC, in action. Here then, Ladies & Gentlemen, I give you: “Interpreting Ink as Python code.” Consider this a 1 minute and 20 second teaser for a 2 …
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