Archive for November, 2007
Friday, November 30th, 2007
Kushal Munir has nice things to say about last Thursday's UTest demo at IBM's Eclipse DemoCamp. There are still spots open for DemoCamp 16 (Monday Dec 3 at the Board of Trade building in downtown Toronto) --- hope to see you there.
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
Jon Udell just blogged a link to the NY Times Republican debate visualization. This is just plain cool: not only can you read the transcript while watching the recording, you can jump from section to section, and (in the "Transcript Analyzer" tab) see an overview of who spoke when, and ...
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
There's a nice piece in Report on Business about the City of Craft event coming up this Saturday, at which StreetKnit participants will---I kid you not---be knitting a house. If that doesn't warm your heart on a cold November night, I don't know what will.
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Following on from the success of Google Summer of Code, Google is launching an open source program for pre-university students that will give participants the opportunity to learn more about and contribute to all aspects of open source software development, from writing code and documentation to preparing training materials and ...
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Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
OK, not actually "rich", and small-f/small-p on "famous" and "popular", but Adam Goucher is interviewed today at DDJ. Adam's who I turn to when I have questions about quality assurance; he comes across as unusually calm in this piece ;-)
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Friday, November 23rd, 2007
I just finished William Langewiesche's The Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the Nuclear Poor, which may be the scariest 192 pages I've ever read. Langewiesche's subject is nuclear proliferation, and in particular the way that The Bomb has become the weapon of choice for countries like North Korea, Pakistan, and ...
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Friday, November 23rd, 2007
...but the rest of this demo screencast just plain rocks.
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Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
It's a common complaint in industry: if you're good at building things, the odds are you'll get promoted to team lead, at which point you'll be too busy herding cats to build things any longer. Similarly, professors don't actually get to spend a lot of time thinking deep thoughts; most ...
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Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
Psiphon (which was once upon a time a CSC49X project) has made Esquire magazine's list of six ideas that will change the world. Congratulations to Michelle Levesque, Jeffrey Jia, Pat Smith, and everyone else who made the project a success.
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Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
Sadie's StreetKnit project made it into the Toronto Star today. W00t!
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