Category Archives: Comcast

I’m in this team!

Posted on August 12, 2012 by Karl

Jon Moore: It’s a Great Team When…. It’s a fantastic privilege to work with the team I do. We’re a cast of characters, everyone is a contributor, fighting for each others success. Leadership plays a role in that. Mission plays … Continue reading →

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Programming, along with Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic – start NOW

Posted on November 12, 2011 by Karl

Matt Ruzicka wonders what could have happened if his school was visited by someone who shared how programming has less to do with something he could learn in college, and more to do with what he was actually doing in … Continue reading →

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Congrats on your ten year blogging anniversary Mike

Posted on March 1, 2011 by Karl

Mike Devine has just reached his ten year blogging anniversary. Congrats Mike!

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A HTTP load/traffic generator and benchmark tool built on Node.js

Posted on June 11, 2010 by Karl

Nodeload is a stress test utility built on node.js.

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Comcast releases open source software

Posted on May 30, 2010 by Karl

Comcast Voices: “Comcast Labs and ISC donate IPv6 Open Source software to open Source Community”. Conversation at Hacker News. And check out Arpit’s post about his work on Comcast’s Xfinity Remote Prototype, “Have you seen the XFinity Social Remote app?”.

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Social Networking == Social Division?

Posted on November 22, 2009 by Karl

You would think after 20 years of the Web, we would come to a better understanding that it either helps us connect, or helps us segregate. You’d be wrong. Following is some research and reading. But first… What do you … Continue reading →

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These are connected: Future of Journalism Links and Communication for September 23, 2009

Posted on September 23, 2009 by Karl

Ethan Zuckerman covered a Clay Shirky talk given at the Shorenstein Center” on journalism today and its future. It’s an absolute must read for media/info/com future thinkers: “Clay Shirky and accountability journalism”. Mark Bowden traces the path a story takes, … Continue reading →

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Congrats!

Posted on July 18, 2009 by Karl

Arpit Mathur: Personal landmark moment: My first patent: On the design of Comcast’s Fan Player

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Welcome new Comcaster

Posted on January 14, 2009 by Karl

Scott McNulty: Farewell, Wharton. Hello, Comcast. Congratulations Scott – you’ll be terrific.

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“crippled by their own process”

Posted on March 26, 2008 by Karl

Coding Horor: “Is Eeyore Designing Your Software?”: Here’s my honest question: does open source software need all that process to be successful? Isn’t the radical lack of process baggage in open source software development not a weakness, but in fact … Continue reading →

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