Twitter's buzzing with technolust based on an Engadget article picturing a Microsoft concept-computer.
Looks lovely, but the photo is misleading. It shows lines of cursive writing that are fraction of a size of the reader's fingernail. Take a look at this blowup:
Based on my fingernail, that cursive writing is …
more ...O'Reilly and Microsoft Press have recently switched to using eBooks as the preferred media for distributing review copies. Like all book reviewers, I receive more books than I actually review. However, since I live in Hawaii, the physical and energy waste of a book that goes unread and for which …
more ...My article on the 10 most influential software development books of the past 10 years only appeared in the 2/15 print edition of SD Times.
If you're interested, here are Amazon affiliate links to the books:
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Photo by Wayne Levin. All rights reserved.
Remote Pair Programming is the subject of my latest column for SD Times
and in the spirit of pair programming, my colleague Carlos Lima shares his perspective as well.
(For what it's worth, I think the tone of my column may be a little more negative that I intended. I …
more ...Cleaning out my "Write blog post commenting upon..." folder...
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more ...Google Wave is, so far, too difficult and buggy to be relied upon (once upon a time, we called this state "beta software"). Nonetheless, the promise for new types of collaboration are there. Here are some thought-provoking use-cases for Wave
more ...From the CACM last year, a good introduction to and survey of the problem.
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