July 2008
26 posts
“The problem ‘Is life worth living?’, vanishes when the urge to ask...”
– Kenny, Wittgenstein, p100. Making me think in this very particular instance that there are parallels between linguistic philosophy and Buddhist method. Apologies to professional philosophers and others who would find this thought abhorrent.
Silverback — guerrilla usability testing (Mac app) →
Usability lab (camera, and screeen recording) in a mac - nice & cheap
Stefano's Linotype " On Version Control... →
Good initial pointers on sociality x opensource crossover and git / source code repository architecture
Phusion Passenger_ (a.k.a. mod_rails / mod_rack) →
Visualizing Agile Projects with Kanban Boards →
Mechanism to visualize and share project status via task overviews (relevant clearly to task managers such as mingle and http://nokahuna.com
Human Rights Group Is Looking for a Developer to... →
Great feel-good opportunity for web-db development agencies (RFP to turn access-based app into opensource webapp). Only concern is the very phased approach of the RFP. But still the right group would…
Who needs InBox 2.0 when you can get Life 2.0? →
Socialistics (http://apps.facebook.com/socialistics) going beyond facebook (NB - now (July 2008) hiring python devs).
Techlightenment →
Interesting company behind “Socialistics” (http://apps.facebook.com/socialistics)
Who needs InBox 2.0 when you can get Life 2.0? →
Techlightenment →
Bruce Conner - An Appraisal →
Review of inspirational montage filmmaker. Sadly all the youtube clips listed at http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/12/movies/12bconn.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=&st=nyt&oref=slogin have already been taken down.
Tate Kids →
New tate website for kids
toonlet: web-comic blogging in minutes →
DNS Made Easy →
Focused dns-hosting
The Selfish Class →
Useful insights on high-level development issues from the “code’s eye view”… handily distilled into patterns over 10 years ago: “artifacts embody architecture… Software artifacts that cannot…
Governance of Britain » What others are saying →
Good to see a government site getting a bit clever about integration (using a specific delicious tag to ‘submit’ a link for inclusion… would be sensible to have a link to the tag on delicious so…
krummz world →
Treasure hunting game built ontop of google maps , by the ever-inventive paul harter. IPhone interface too!
http://red56.co.uk/ learns about css and drops its tables… my goodness, whatever next?
Venture crosses divides in life and on the Web -... →
greyworld - world_bench_ →
do you believe in the telectroscope?: →
The Ideal Government Project →
Opera Web Standards Curriculum →
“Everything you need to know is condensed into short, helpful tutorials that inform and inspire. Opera’s Web Standards Curriculum can help you brush up on things you know and maybe even teach you…
If it hurts, do it more often
Lovely turn of phrase from a recent posting by Martin Fowler on Incremental Migration:
There’s a soundbite I like to use in an agile context: if it hurts do it more often. Its surface illogicality makes it memorable, and there’s a real truth in there. Many difficult activities can be made much more straightforward by doing them more frequently.
