• Fred Brooks Speaking in Menlo Park

    Posted on March 31, 2004

    Fred Brooks is speaking in Menlo Park on April 8th, 2004. He wrote The Mythical Man-Month, one of a very small number of universally applicable software engineering books. The fact that it remains so even decades after it was written is astounding. This is one not to miss. [Read More]

  • Updated Info About the SENT Exhibit

    Posted on March 30, 2004

    I got a message back from Xeni saying that the SENT site should go live very soon (within about a week) and that the live show is going to happen during the summer. Yay!! Seems like a lot is going on, even if it isn’t reflected on the SENT site.... [Read More]

  • Mobile Design Issues

    Posted on March 30, 2004

    The Feature has the first of what is going to be a four part series on mobile design, Listening to Users. The list of points there should be pretty familiar to anyone who has ever taken even a passing interest in design. It’s not even surprizing any more to hear... [Read More]

  • SENT Art Show

    Posted on March 30, 2004

    The SENT exhibit of phonecam art was supposed to get under way during February of 2004 I thought. At least that’s what an article in The Guardian linked from the press page at SENT said. There’s still a link up at BoingBoing, so I’m assuming the event is still planned... [Read More]

  • Prototype Based Programming

    Posted on March 30, 2004

    There’s been a decent amount of discussion about prototype based programming lately, with two new projects called Prothon and Slate getting most of the press. So all of this gets the question, what the hell is a prototype based programming language? There’s a definition in the Wikipedia which can shed... [Read More]

  • Online Calendar

    Posted on March 29, 2004

    I forget how I ended up there, but I was reading Michael Sippey’s post about keeping a timeline of major events for the year. There’s an example at his site. I like it. There should be tools to handle these formats for the Palm platform. Open source tools. When I... [Read More]

  • Near Field Communication

    Posted on March 29, 2004

    The Feature has an article about location based services being deployed and experimented with today. It includes a pointer to an article in The Guardian with information about Urban Tapestries and Near Field Communication. I had heard that NFC was a combined project to form an open platform for location... [Read More]

  • Small Pieces all Smushed Together

    Posted on March 28, 2004

    I’ve finally gotten around to reading Small Pieces Loosely Joined as a whole. It’s one of those books that I’ve heard so much about and read so many quotes from that I felt like I would already have a good feel for what it was really about. But once I... [Read More]

  • Open Desktop for the Masses

    Posted on March 28, 2004

    Edd Dumbill posted his take on the next steps for GNOME. There’s been a debate going on about the future direction for the project, I posted a few links a little while ago myself. I have some points that I want to throw in myself, cause I somewhat disagree with... [Read More]

  • Free Culture Plucker version

    Posted on March 27, 2004

    As Lessig points out in a recent entry, there are lots of different formats of his new book Free Culture out there on the Internet now. There’s also a Plucker version out there as well. Plucker is an open source document reader for Palm handhelds. The book kicks much ass,... [Read More]