I’ve been out of the music industry for a decade, but every so often I look into it again. The decision makers haven’t improved since I stopped caring ten years ago, and they’re not any smarter.
chromatic on O'Reilly ONLamp Blog — Funny
Heresy and turtles (all the way down) with Avi Bryant
The rich web user interfaces of tomorrow will look, and act, like the desktop applications of yesterday, but the web programming tools that are currently in vogue, including Ruby on Rails, are ill-equipped to provide such rich modes of interaction. “A lot of web development, right now, gets done with practices that were good trade-offs 10 years ago,” said Avi Bryant, creator of the Smalltalk-based Seaside web framework. “It is really important that we take a very critical look at those practices, and decide whether there might be better ways of doing things.”
caboose — I’m going to have to read this carefully.
Well, we all know that Mount Everest, at 29,035 feet above sea level, is the highest spot on our planet and is likely to remain so for a long, long time… unless we think about the word “highest” in a different way.
Suppose I asked you to find the spot on Earth where you would be closest to the moon, the stars and outer space. In other words, the point on Earth that is closest to “out there.”
NPR — Interesting article, but very awkwardly described (as demonstrated in the above quote).
DemoCampToronto13, April 24, 2007 6:30pm
- Invited: Mike Beltzner Mozilla (15 minutes)
- Invited: Betsy Weber TechSmith (15 minutes)
- Break (10 minutes)
- Demos – 5 minutes each (these should not be sales demos)
- Opensource Game Platforms
- SneakerPlay
- NotSoSo
- ViaVol
- ProductWiki
- Bart G
David Crow — Always worth attending.
