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Monthly Archives: December 2008
You can spot Big Media because it’s not spelled with an ‘<a>’
I am always amazed and saddened when I see traditional media trying to cover anything to do with the web. Why cover a story about something happening on the web, and not provide any links? Why not write yourself into the fabric of the web? Why always look at the other kids having fun in [...]
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Stroustrup on the state of CS Education
I just finished reading a great interview with Stroustrup about CS education, and his ideas for how to improve it. He’s got some great things to say, and the street cred to say them, especially now that he’s a prof teaching CS. Here are some great take aways:
Take a simple example: A friend of mine [...]
Gladwell on CBC
This is a nice interveiw (audio) with Gladwell from CBC. More and more I’m finding myself returning to his ideas, especially as they relate to the need for space and context for individuals to grow personal drive. I’ve striven to do this professionally with the courses I’ve created over the past few years–I’ve often described [...]
Posted in Idea Factory Comments closed
That’s what I’m talking about
via planet.mozilla.org:
Clint writes in to nominate Aaron Train (aaronMT) for his tireless work on audio/video tests last week. Aaron’s one of Dave Humphrey’s Seneca students who took on audio/video testing after completing his project on private browsing. He’s been doing a great job trying to figure out these components and invent ways to bend mochitests [...]
Taking it over the line
One of the central defining characteristics of software, any software, is that it is unfinished. This is a point most easily understood in the context of open source software, where being half-dressed is easier to see because the curtains aren’t drawn. It’s not a criticism. It’s what software is.
This is what software is, but what [...]
Posted in CDOT, Idea Factory, Seneca, VncSharp Comments closed
Some more emacs love
I don’t think it’s a secret that I use and love emacs as my primary text editor for development and such. I make a habit of trying to convince innocent and maluable students to give it a try (how many of my students have been burned by tabs vs. spaces or EOL errors in patches [...]
Posted in CDOT, Digital Swag, Seneca Comments closed
Mike Rutzen swims with Great White Sharks
I don’t know what to do with this except post it:
I have to say, I think this is pure crazy, and it’s only a matter of time before he joins Timothy Treadwell. It’s a romantic idea, and a great video. I’m not sure it’s much more than that.
Posted in Come on!, Digital Swag Comments closed
Toward an understanding of failure and coping
I wrote previously about a personal experience of failure as a way of exploring ideas that I want to elaborate on now. My subject was work on a Thunderbird bug that involved some complicated string work. My intention in writing the post was to attempt to expose a philosophy of failure that sees opportunity in [...]
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Free as in ‘Hairy’
I’d be remiss if I didn’t draw my faithful readers’ attention to an annual event that begins today. It’s December, and with the cold and the snow comes the rebirth of a revolution. I’m of course talking about No Shaving In December, NSID to the initiated. Today I was thrilled to learn [...]
Posted in Idea Factory, Seneca Comments closed
Merry Worlde