Monthly Archives: January 2012

Nurturing A Video Game Industry In Philadelphia

Posted on January 30, 2012 by Karl

NewsWorks posted a story, back in December, on “Philadelphia Game Lab”, an organization I’m helping advise led by idea-machine Nathan Solomon whose energy and passion is infectious. Read it: NewsWorks: “Nurturing a nascent video game industry in Philadelphia — NewsWorks”. … Continue reading →

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Earlier This Month The Commodore 64 Turned 30

Posted on January 30, 2012 by Karl

Cheap, accessible, it opened the doors for many children to their careers today and families had a lot of fun a long the way. The six months I had one, and the time I spent with my friend Steve’s 64, … Continue reading →

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Go Philly! CyberCoders Reveals Top 10 Cities for Technology Jobs in 2012

Posted on January 29, 2012 by Karl

MarketWatch: “CyberCoders Reveals Houston Beats out San Jose and Silicon Valley as The Leading City for Technology Jobs in 2012. Philadelphia is #3!!!

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Jonathan Stray: “What should the digital public sphere do?”

Posted on January 29, 2012 by Karl

A fantastic piece from Jonathan Stray on “algorithm designers to dedicated curators to, yes, traditional on-the-scene pro journalists, a great many people in different fields now have a part in shaping the digital public sphere”: “What should the digital public … Continue reading →

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For Whom The Bell Tolls

Posted on January 29, 2012 by Karl

The famous quoted passage from John Donne below has been brought up a few times the past few weeks. Here is the whole: “Meditation 17″: No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the … Continue reading →

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Setup Play and Scala on Mac OS

Posted on January 29, 2012 by Karl

Aren Patel has a nice write up that I worked through today: “How to Install Play Framework in OSX – arenpatel.com”.

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Setup Emacs for Clojure on Mac OS

Posted on January 29, 2012 by Karl

Nick at Unschooled has a quick post on getting a Clojure environment up and going fast that I just walked through without a problem: “How to setup Emacs for Clojure on Mac OS X Lion”.

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Learn To Play Any Song By Ear

Posted on January 28, 2012 by Karl

Well, not every song, but the technique described in in this reddit comment match those I use to figure out how to play along to almost any pop or rock song.

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Cathy Davidson: Why We Need a 4th R: Reading, wRiting, aRithmetic, algoRithms

Posted on January 26, 2012 by Karl

Cathy Davidson at DMLCentral posts a great piece on children learning code: “Why We Need a 4th R: Reading, wRiting, aRithmetic, algoRithms”: …What is marvelous about algorithmic thinking and Webmaking is that you can actually see abstract thinking transformed into … Continue reading →

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Test Driven Infrastructure With Vagrant, Puppet and Guard

Posted on January 26, 2012 by Karl

Patrick Debois has written a terrific guide that I plan on following in “Test Driven Infrastructure with Vagrant, Puppet and Guard”. Related: Mozilla Webdev: Matthew Riley MacPherson: “Developing with Vagrant, Puppet, and playdoh” Treehouse Agency: Steven Merrill: DrupalCamp Atlanta 2011: … Continue reading →

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