September 18th, 2007
I’m giving a presentation on Web 2.0 technologies for the Atlanta SPIN organization tomorrow evening (for details and directions to the meeting location, click here), and I thought it would be a good idea to update the mind-map I’ve been refining and extending over the past year and a half; I’m up to version 35 [...]
February 13th, 2007
Another day, another chapter: I’ve now read through Chapter 3 of Scott Rosenberg‘s Dreaming in Code, and will offer a few comments and observations. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, you might want to skip back to some earlier blog entries that discuss the preface and initial chapters of the book; links [...]
February 11th, 2007
As promised, I’ve digested another chapter of Scott Rosenberg‘s Dreaming in Code, and will do my best to make my comments much briefer than in the past. Before I discuss the chapter itself, let me emphasize again that Scott has posted an online version of the endnotes for the book, which you can find here. [...]
February 8th, 2007
All but my most loyal blog-fans (are there such people?) have probably forgotten that I received my copy of Dreaming in Code from Amazon back in mid-January, and began enthusiastically reviewing the preface and first chapter. I knew that I would soon be distracted by other assignments and deadlines, but I had hoped to finish [...]
February 7th, 2007
In my initial commentary on Scott Rosenberg‘s Dreaming in Code, I complained that while his website/blog promised to provide an online version of the end-notes hidden at the very end of his book, they weren’t actually there. He graciously responded, within 24 hours, apologized for being overwhelmed with work, and promised to get the material [...]
January 18th, 2007
I didn’t think I’d have a chance to get started reading and reviewing Dreaming in Code until next week, when I embark upon a 14-hour flight to Tokyo (click here to see an amazing HDR, or “high dynamic range,” photo of Tokyo, and be sure to click on the full-size image; thanks, BoingBoing!) But the [...]
January 15th, 2007
I can’t remember where I first saw the reference to Dreaming in Code: two dozen programmers, three years, 4,732 bugs, and one quest for transcendent software by Salon.com‘s Scott Rosenberg, but I ordered it from Amazon right away. How could you not order a book with a title like that? How come you didn’t open [...]
