There’s a guy who didn’t waste any time! 🙂
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Category Archives: Just Rambling
Gates at MIX: The Internet as an Operating System…
Watching the Tim O’Reilly/Bill Gates conversation on the Virtual MIX website, I was struck by Gates encapsulating the direction of software as “the internet as an operating system”. [Read more …]
[A DevLife post]
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Lots of blogs coming from Mix
Between the weblogs.asp.net feed and a variety of other individual feeds that I am subscribed to, I’m getting lots of good info streaming in from Mix.
My favorite comment so far was by Andrew Stopford who noted that everyone’s reading name badges as they pass each other (“do I know him?” “do I know her?” “should I?”) but that Tim O’Reilly read his badge but kept walking. Heck, I would have expected the same. Though the day Bill Gates stops on the stairway to say “Hey, Julie! I’ve been hoping to meet you someday!” is the day that I can say “my work here’s been done” and go back to being a potter and pursue my other life dream at the same time. 😉
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New Google verb – have you been “googled”?
We all now google as in “go google it”.
But I learned a new usage for google as a verb: “we’ve been googled” as in Google bought the company. No, not *my* company.
But here’s a coupla happy guys from Boulder Colorado who’s company, @Last, makers of SketchUp, got Googled thanks to an add-on for Google Earth!
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What was I doing again?
Has this ever happened to you? An idea pops into your head and you open up your web browser to check it out. But because the home page of your web browser is pointed to a news website, the minute you see the home page filled with news (good and bad) you completely forgot what it was that you had meant to look up only one second ago.
This happens to me way too often.
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RIP Software Development Magazine
From Larry O’Brien’s blog:
Oh well. The writing had been on the wall, but today it’s official: Software Development magazine, which I founded in 1992, has been absorbed by Dr. Dobb’s Journal and will cease publication. Ironically, SD was born when Dr. Dobb’s absorbed Computer Language after Miller Freeman (now CMP) bought DDJ. Between the two events, that means more than 150,000 subscribers who signed up for Computer Language or Software Development and winded up with DDJ. Just saying. Larry also has some follow up posts: The Imminent Death of Developer’s Magazines Commenting on a blog post by Eric Sink Why DDJ Won’t Change:Commenting on a blog post by Joel Spolsky |
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Jakob Nielsen, website usability and Victoria’s Secret models
DevSource has started new video interview series called Great Minds in Development. This is not more podcasts featuring our friends in the .NET community chatting away, but interviews with some of the thought leaders in the development world. The first video is online… [read more …]
[A DevLife post]
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Sys-Con’s AJAX one day seminar is being live-streamed right now!
Though the camera seems to be trained on the speaker and never the screen. I keep waiting to SEE what he’s talking about. Maybe someone will notice and do something about it.
Maybe by the time Sahil Malik is on a little later, they’ll have it fixed
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Windows Live -cool
I was trying to be really skeptical but it didn’t work. After poking around Windows Live for about 5 minutes this afternoon – I think it’s pretty cool. [Read more …]
[A DevLife post]
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Windows Forms are your future
Who knows windows development better than Charles Petzold? And and he thinks Windows Forms are definitely going to be around for a long time – even if there are some big gaps in the WPF version.
Charles’ post refers to Tim Sneath’s excellent post on the same topic.
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