I'm going out on a limb, I know, but I'm going to say that I don't think NASA will be ready to begin construction base on the moon in the year 2020 and, darn it, I know I shouldn't speculate wildly like this, but I'm going to say that when …
more ...Wesner Moise quickly reviews Brook's "No Silver Bullets" assertion and claims "[t]hat assertion turns out to be pure nonsense, amply disproven by numerous advances in IDEs, languages, frameworks, componentization over the past few decades."
I couldn't disagree more. While the cumulative effects have given us more than an order …
more ...Apparently, the next version of Office is going to be 14, embracing the triskedecaphobic convention of buildings in skipping the sp-o-o-o-k-y ramifications of, you know, counting.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but when you get to the point where, despite your worldwide hegemony on office documents …
more ...Things are beginning to look up for me being able to do some XNA-based projects in the new year. I need a couple realizable games to tackle. I have one designed that I'll never be able to get approved (it's called "Fanaticize me!" I think I'd get in trouble even …
more ...Backseat Playground is a research project that developed a GPS-based game for kids. It seems more like a (great) storytelling system more than a game. Basically, it uses the GPS and location-awareness to introduce game elements, e.g., when it sees that you're driving over a bridge, it presents you …
more ...\<a href="http://www.knowing.net/images/ComputersoftheAncientGeeks_74BC/image05.png"" atomicselection="true">Scientists have reverse engineered the Antikythera Mechanism, a sophisticated analog computer that was known to have calculated lunar phases and a luni-solar calendar. Newly reported is that it additionally calculated lunar and solar eclipses! Additionally, it may have …
more ...Damien Guard has done some work on a great looking monospaced font. He hasn't finished it yet, so be sure to post about it so that he gets a whole bunch of technorattention for the project and is shamed into finishing it. (via Brad Wilson)
more ...Julie Lerman parsed from an email of mine that I :
Apparently, I've got an inverter on my …
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Microsoft has posted version 1.1.13.8 (whatever the heck that means) of their F# compiler, which gives me an excuse to discuss the book Practical OCaml by Joshua Smith.
Practical OCaml is a new release from APress. My favorite technical book of last year was Practical Common Lisp …
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