Read this thought provoking essay by Marshall Poe.
Then read Scott Berkun’s thoughts.
Then make up your own mind, because this story is still being written isn’t it?
Category Archives: Coding, Software Engineering, Computer Science
It used to cost a $1 trillion, now it costs $60 dollars
Computer World: “Today’s $60 1TB drive would have cost $1 trillion in the ’50s”
YouTube: “TEDxPhilly – Robert J. Moore – The data explosion “:
Related:
Hal R. Varian, University of California, Berkeley: Economics of Information Technology
MIT Technology Review: “The 70 Online Databases that Define Our Planet”
guardian.co.uk: Data Store
TechCrunch: Devin Coldewey: “The Dangers Of Externalizing Knowledge”
O’Reilly: Mike Loukides: “What is Data Science?”
Great Michael Feathers presentation on testing and design
Google’s Innovation Factory
Fellow Comcaster Jon Moore has been sharing this great paper by Google. Lots to chew on from a very quick read.
Some links for those getting started with Android dev
Smashing Magazine: “Get Started Developing for Android with Eclipse”
Android Developers: “Hello, World”
Tim Bray: “What Android Is”
Android Developers: “The Developer’s Guide”
O’Reilly: Programming Android: Your Toolkit
On the Value of Computer Science
The Chronicle of Higher Education: “Decoding the Value of Computer Science”:
Computer science exposed two generations of young people to the rigors of logic and rhetoric that have disappeared from far too many curricula in the humanities. Those students learned to speak to the machines with which the future of humanity will be increasingly intertwined. They discovered the virtue of understanding the instructions that lie at the heart of things, of realizing the danger of misplaced semicolons, of learning to labor until what you have built is good enough to do what it is supposed to do.
2 pieces with lessons on programming
Carl Miller: “The Two Things about Computer Programming” and related reddit thread.
Jonathan Danylko: “20/20: Top 20 Programming Lessons I’ve Learned in 20 Years”
Barcamp Philly 2010 sounded awesome
Aaron Held’s Barcamp Summary and the terrific Twitter stream highlighted how much fun and illuminating it was.
TypePad AntiSpam count so far: 31700
That’s over the past year. I’ve modified some settings to get more aggressive, and have a few other countermeasures going, but I still get too much spam to manage for a personal site. 25 messages in the past 15 minutes in fact, plus 4 that AntiSpam didn’t catch. Cleaning this stuff off of a personal site takes a lot of effort.
I think it needs to be said that not only have the advents of Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter moved a lot of the energy from blogging, this has as well.
I’ve been planning to migrate back to WordPress for a while now, but along with that, I’m considering Disqus for this site. I’ve been holding off because paradox1x.org is a personal site, but leveraging a shared resource like that, to solve a bunch of known problems, makes sense.
TDD and Design
codeartisan: Jon Moore: “Tales of Test-Driven Development” – Jon describes how TDD, influenced by a class Robert Martin held at CIM last week, improved the design of an immutable Map implementation he’s been working on.