Rationale is an interesting program that allows you to visually represent arguments:
It is essentially a domain-specific Visio or MindManager. Since it is domain-specific, it is faster to construct a complex tree and additionally export the structure as a text outline. This also limits it a little, in that I …
more ...Charles Petzold has a post in which he talks about the unique experience of reading a book . In the post, Petzold mentions a device that caused a buzz at a recent O'Reilly conference; the device was a book that somehow embedded a screen for displaying hyperlinked content (from the picture …
more ...eWeek is quoting an Evans Data survey in which Borland's StarTeam was rated the best source control management (SCM) software, beating out CVS, IBM ClearCase/ClearQuest, Microsoft Visual SourceSafe, Microsoft Visual Studio Team System, Perforce, Serena/PVCS, and Subversion. It's an interesting result, because surveys have a strong tendency to …
more ...Words cannot express my admiration for this.
more ...A few weeks ago, Scottevest Cargo Shorts were on sale. I've never owned a Scottevest product before, but they're well-reviewed, and if there's one piece of clothing a Hawaiian geek requires, it's capacious cargo shorts.
They're quite good looking and can handle a full load of iPod, wallet, digital camera …
more ...Alan Turing was born 95 years ago today. Less than 100 years ago. I know that at the physical level, information processing is nowhere near as dramatic as flight or the rise of the car, but it's still astonishing to reflect upon the advances. I've been drafting an article about …
more ...NVidia's Tesla C870 Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) will be the basis for a "deskside supercomputer" add-on that will provide highly-parallel high performance computing (HPC) capabilities, presumably programmed with \<a href="http://developer.nvidia.com/object/cuda.html"" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">NVidia's CUDA toolkit.
Dedicated hardware for HPC has …
more ...Ziff Davis is [selling for \\(150M its Enterprise Group](https://adage.com/section/btob/976), whose assets include *Baseline, CIO Insight, eWeek*, and **microsoft-watch.com.** Unfortunately, that leaves ZD with still around \~\\)240M in debt, which they must pay off using their Consumer/Small Business Group (which published PC Mag …
more ...Miguel de Icaza has unveiled "Moonlight," an implementation of Silverlight on Linux by way of Mono. The project was done as a 21-day sprint and while just a prototype, it makes Microsoft's new in-browser managed platform available on the 3 major desktop contenders.
I remain of the opinion that Silverlight …
more ...I was just scanning my latest copy of one of the very last independent software development magazines (independent as in "copy not subject to approval by vendors") and saw an article on REST. It seems intuitive to me that if you're a programming magazine today, you compete on clarity and …
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