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Monthly Archives: February 2010
2 Ant to Maven Migration Links
Raible Design: Ant vs. Maven Sonatype Blog: How to convert from Ant to Maven in 5 minutes
Posted in Coding, Software Engineering, Programming
Tagged devops, Java, maven, programming
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Don’t look now but..
Google is still censoring in China.
Posted in Communications, Connection, the Internet, the Web, and Media, Public Service, Civics, Government and Activism
Tagged freedom, internet
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Seth Finkelstein’s Pew Research answers
Seth Finkelstein has posted his answers to a Pew survey on the future of the Internet, and Google making us stupid (or not) in a thought provoking yet grounded (which is rare on the Web – admit it!) post. Seth … Continue reading
10 years of weblogging
I’ve been trying to write a riff on Garret’s 10 year anniversary piece on blogging for a while now. But every time I start, it ends up way too long. So just read his piece and come back. Okay, did … Continue reading
Posted in Communications, Connection, the Internet, the Web, and Media
Tagged community, connection, internet, programming
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Douglas R. Hofstadter “analogy as the lifeblood, so to speak, of human thinking”
Douglas R. Hofstadter: Analogy as the Core of Cognition: My point is simple: we are prepared to see, and we see easily, things for which our language and culture hand us ready-made labels. When those labels are lacking, even though … Continue reading
Netbeans IDE + Python virtualenv
teleported bits shares how.
Posted in Coding, Software Engineering, Programming
Tagged programming, Python, software
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It’s always bad when people like that, write articles like this
Charles Munger: Basically, It’s Over: A parable about how one nation came to financial ruin.
“A Conversation with Martin Fowler”
Bill Venners interviewed Martin Fowler back in 2002 that resulted in six part series filled with engineering wisdom to absorb. Among the many exchanges was the following on flexibility that reinforces some principals I try (not always successfully) to put … Continue reading
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Tagged lessons, process, programming
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Charlie Lord, RIP
“Charlie Lord, Mental Ward Photographer And Activist, Dies At Age 90″. Charlie Lord’s work, which exposed the horrors of Byberry State Hospital here in Philadelphia in the 1940s, was recently profiled by NPR: At Byberry, Lord sneaked a small Agfa … Continue reading
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Tagged cogsci, health, philadelphia, psychology
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Kiss free calls to 911 for emergencies goodbye?
Consumerist: “California Town To Start Charging Up To $400 For 911 Calls”.