• Signing off so that I can watch the Oscars spoiler-free. Up "Hurt Locker"! Down "Avatar"! #
• Edward Tufte takes Gov't app't to chair production of reports on recovery spending. http://bit.ly/aTiWaf #
• First good rain in Kona in months yesterday afternoon. Cleaned out sky for gorgeous stars and blazing mars …

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• ayende's Example.MapReduce at master - GitHub / mapreduce performance c#
• Using Mongo With LINQ / linq mongodb nosql database
• Directed Edge - Blog - On Building a Stupidly Fast Graph Database / algorithm concurrency database performance graphs
• google-diff-match-patch - Project Hosting on Google Code / programming algorithm diff match …

• Applying for data-centric jobs. I think of myself as an algorithm / performance guy, so it's weird to write cover letters with DBA stuff... #
• USA vs CAN hockey game was epic. Hope it helps NHL. Togue-wearing syrup-suckers: health-care AND gold? #
• Skinput from CMU and MSR http://www.youtube.com/watch?v …

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 …

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 …

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:

• Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit
• Practices of an Agile Developer: Working in …

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 …

Cleaning out my "Write blog post commenting upon..." folder...

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The Listening Engine

Performance

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