BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. Part of the O’Reilly Women in Tech series. A few weeks back, the book Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think hit the streets. What a terrific concept: get several prominent programmers to write about their own unique perspective on programming and donate the money to a good cause […]
The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing. Pierre Bonnard. Nick Carr comments on Google’s Web 3.0, pointing out the fact that Web 3.0 was supposed to be about the Semantic Web, or, as he puts it, the first step in the Machine’s Grand Plan to take over. For all the numbers we flash about there […]
I love SnagIt for the PC. I’m using it for this book, and I’ve included a description of it in the book, as one of the tools covered. It’s a great screen capture tool. Only problem: no version for the Mac. Does anyone have any suggestions for a comparable tool for the Mac? Other than Grab? What […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Susan Kitchens points out that the number of women in the freshmen class at Caltech has increased from 28.5 last year to 37 percent this year. That’s a significant rise, even though it doesn’t match other tech colleges (42 to 47 percent), or colleges in general (with 57 percent women). […]
Popular opinion is that once you publish any information online, it’s online forever. Yet the web was never intended to be a permanent snapshot, embedding past, present, and future in unbreakable amber, preserved for all time. We can control what happens to our data once it’s online, though it’s not always easy. The first step […]