Philip Sandifer, “A hopeless geek with a PhD in English focusing on media studies”, compares Star Wars and Doctor Who in “Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 21 (Star Wars)”. A long read, but worth it.
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A parent who finds a way to build an App helping his Autistic son
The Startup Toolkit profiles Aeir and profiles the person behind it, Joseph Hill. It is an inspiring story: “A man, a mop, a year, and an app – Joseph Hill on Aeir Talk”.
In 2011, the Internet started to revolutionize education
A huge list of stories from TheNextWeb to read in its 2011 round-up: “In 2011: How the Internet Revolutionized Education”. Things that got my attention:
Squad, CodeNow, ReadingBear, The Open University, and Clayton Christensen, saying education is ready for disruption.
Edd Dumbill’s Big Data predictions for 2012
O’Reilly Radar: Edd Dumbill: “Five big data predictions for 2012”. Are you going to add a data science team in the new year? Apache’s S4 looks interesting.
Tim Bray, “we have so little consensus on these issues”
Tim Bray posted a thought provoker in “Type-System Criteria”. Working in Android has caused him to rethink some positions. Go read.
Greg Wilson, “This continues to be the biggest headache our students face”
Greg Wilson discusses one of the biggest road blocks to using Python more widely, especially in teaching situations, in “It Just Keeps On Hurting”.
How Firefly fans won a fight for free speech on a campus
Quotes from the Nato Software Engineering Conference in 1968 – Peter Krantz
Peter Krantz put together some eye-opening, and sad, sad quotes from a software engineering conference held in 1968: “Quotes from the Nato Software Engineering Conference in 1968 – Peter Krantz”.
“Practice What You Love”
DeftDigits, a blog on learning guitar, has some great advice for initially picking up some basics: “Practice What You Love | Deft Digits Guitar Lessons”
A retrospective on “No Silver Bullet” in Software Engineering
OOPSLA held an all-star panel (including Dave Thomas and Martin Fowler), earlier this year, on the must-read paper from Fred Brooks (included in the must-read book “Mythical Man-Month”) “No Silver Bullet — Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering”. Read the paper. Then read the panel’s transcript.
WikiWikiWeb: No Silver Bullet